A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives.

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.

Don't blaming your challenge but get up and look it as a bridge to your success.

It's great when talented people in the world, in the same business, can see your work and compliment you on what you're doing and take a strong interest in your movements in your career.

Good leaders are scarce; so I'm following myself.

Pleasure and pain, the good and the bad, are so intermixed that we can not shun the one without depriving ourselves of the other.

He who, silent, loves to be with us - he who loves us in our silence - has touched one of the keys that ravish hearts.

There has also been a change - a slippage - in our intellectual and moral strength. Seven lean years of drouth and famine have withered a field of ideas.

Beyond the Thunder is the closest I've recorded to an acoustic thing.

She doesn’t like you, McNab. “I knoooow. I find that really attractive in a woman.

Sure I do, and if someone paid you six-thousand dollars a game, you'd have fun as well.

My songs are very much a kind of psychoanalysis. I am very introspective in my songs, and I am working through, always.