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

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.

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.

After the death of a parent, children will typically start to worry about your safety as their mother, so they will need extra reassurance from you.

I just want to be in good things that I want to see, and I want to work with talented people who are smarter than myself.

You're better off missing a bus or an airplane once in a while than you are getting there too early all the time.

WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.

Who ever thought that the world-famous Captain Obvious was really mild-mannered Colin Mochrie?

Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.

Beyond matter is spirit and in spirit there is nothing but love.

The day your child says she hates you, and every child will go through the phase, it kicks like a foot in the stomach.

The fourth largest city in America is under water tonight and we don't know when we will see it again. We don't know how long it will take for the waters to subside.

Alice came to a fork in the road. 'Which road do I take?' she asked. 'Where do you want to go?' responded the Cheshire Cat. 'I don't know,' Alice answered. 'Then,' said the Cat, 'it doesn't matter.