You honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual but in so doing you honor my colleagues also who made possible the results you have cited.

The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom.

Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts.

And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement.

We hope that this honor you have done us will bring the time of further realization of these benefits closer and will help all mankind to live better and be happier through the atom and isotopes.

Nuclear war would mean abolition of most comforts, and disruption of normal routines, for children and adults alike.

Art is a form of intelligence, it can be developed, it's linked to intuition and it's something that all humans have

Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what is there.

Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.

Am I like the optimist who, while falling ten stories from a building, says at each story, I'm all right so far?

How Sweet the name of Jesus... the rock on which I build, my shield and hiding place, my never failing treasury, filled with boundless stores of grace.

I seem to always inspire a strong reaction one way or the other.

The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.

Every delay that postpones our joys, is long. [Lat., Longa mora est nobis omnis, quae gaudia differt.]

The goal of all life is death

Russia's partners should understand it's best not to mess with us.