There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are the only men.

Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.

Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company.

We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.

I do not want to believe in God. Therefore I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation leading to evolution.

All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.

I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.

Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.

The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'cheque enclosed.

Screw this. He’d blown his shot at nice-and-easy, which only left quick-and-brutal—my favorite way to play.

..deceivers must expect to be deceived.

America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.

When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I'm a perfectionist.

Anyone who was a rebel at one time in life cannot return to being conventional.

Alas, alas, that ever love was sin! I ever followed natural inclination Under the power of my constellation And was unable to deny, in truth, My chamber of Venus to a likely youth.

The lifestyle that an artist can have, the freedom to wander in the landscape with no real pressure or deadlines, was a very attractive one.

Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused.

One single great player doesn't make anything for a team; it has to be a team. I think [American] football is the greatest team sport there is because you have to depend on your brother next to you.