Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.

I'm afraid there's a big confusion in the world between nuclear power and nuclear arms.

The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.

Before Chernobyl or without Chernobyl the nuclear power was the safe thing.

Politicians - well, first of all, they should get rid of nuclear weapons, I think.

Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.

From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.

In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

People either buy nuclear power, nuclear reactors from outside, and don't train their own men, or they just don't go into nuclear power at all, they are so afraid of it.

Mankind spends much more on training pilots of aircraft than it does to train the nuclear reactor operators.

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

Oh what a poet I will flay myself into.

We often select envenomed praise which, by a reaction upon those we praise, shows faults we could not have shown by other means.

Dancing is a vertical interpretation of a horizontal intention.

Come to close?No one wants to come to close.If it's done for them,they accept it,even while they condemn it.Why not?But no one wants to know what it's like.Turn a blind eye.Maybe it will go away.

The war came to me in my dreams and showed me its sole purpose: to go on, only to go on.

This is what happens under capitalism - as long as corporations and the super rich own the economy and the politicians, every new generation has to fight hard just to defend itself.

We deserve punishment and get forgiveness; we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.

I'm really not good with impulse control.

Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas.