The atomic bombs will surely shorten the war, and let us hope that they will effectively end war as a possibility in human affairs.

No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid.

In the Radiation Laboratory we count it a privilege to do everything we can to assist our medical colleagues in the application of these new tools to the problems of human suffering.

Let us cherish the hope that the day is not far distant when we will be in the midst of this next adventure.

The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work.

I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment.

From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits.

I have gotten over feeling badly. We would be eternally miserable if our errors worried us too much because as we push forward we will make plenty more.

It never does much good to find out why you can't; put your effort into what you can do.

But there is no joy in Mudville - mighty Casey has "struck out."

Certainly, it may bring to light such a deeper knowledge of the structure of matter as to constitute a veritable discontinuity in the progress of science.

Anyway, I have long had a very definite tendency to tune out the moment I come anywhere near either a pulpit or a soapbox.

In my day, husbands and wives showed each other a suitable level of indifference.

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for.

It's unconscionable to breed with the number of children who are starving to death in impoverished countries.

No two journeys are alike. Nobody can pretend to know the journey another person takes to achieve his dreams.

Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.

It was different with you, Leo. In the eyes and ears of my heart, you and the magic are one and the same.

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

I'm a big fan of CNN. I watched it from the beginning.

I need to work on defensive play and being consistent.