While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community.

Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood.

Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.

In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.

I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter.

Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.

Total failure isn't something I want to spend a lot of time envisioning. I'm pretty sure I'll recognize it if it comes.

Once you realize your past is just a story, it no longer has any power over you.

Actors are just entertainers, even the serious ones. That's all an actor is. He's like a serious Bruce Forsyth.

It's something that's always been there for me, that I have huge blue eyes - it's been something that people have always talked about.

I played because I loved it. It was incredible when they told me they were going to sign me and they were going to give me money.

I think we should have a very, very heavy tax on handguns and on bullets.

The machine enslaves, the hand sets free.

I'm not for everyone. I'm barely for me.

I didn't really have any interest in producing anything.

I love my friends. They're my family.

Somewhere around the place I've got an unfinished short story about Schrodinger's Dog; it was mostly moaning about all the attention the cat was getting.