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.

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.

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.

But if you want him, you might have to fight for him." I let my head fall to the tabletop. "For the love of all that is dead and Chinese, please, no more fighting. This army needs a break.

I'm not writing a Ph.D. Dissertation.

School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.

It is possible to renounce everything and attain enlightenment. But most people don't want to renounce; they wish to run away from responsibility and hard work.

Speech is a powerful master and achieves the most divine feats with the smallest and least evident body. It can stop fear, relieve pain, create joy, and increase pity

Kate had never met a person she didn't want to protect, preferably by hacking at the hostile parties with her sword.

Stay the course and see the beauty of life unfold for you.

I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work.

There will be no fraternal strife while the foe is at the gate.

I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities.