Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization.

I turned my attention for a while to gamma ray astronomy and soon began the first in a continous series of experiments at the Savannah River site to study the properties of the neutrino.

I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.

I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted.

In 1958, I was a delegate to the Atoms for Peace conference in Geneva.

In 1956 we observed the electron antineutrino.

One kiss changed my life. Dibs on the rest of yours. ~Daniel

A lot of lip service gets paid to being honest, but no one really wants to hear it unless what's being said is the party line.

When all you see is darkness, turn to hope, and your heart will see the light.

What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.

You never stand beside the same river twice; you have to keep looking upstream.

God has no other hands than ours.

I don't know if I would refer to myself as a local celebrity.

Whether or not you can become great at something, you can always become better.

Talk is cheap. If it wasn't, people might not toss around 'I love you' like a marked-down phrase in a sales bin.

Once, after finishing a picture, I thought I would stop for awhile, take a trip, do things-the next time I thought of this, I found five years had gone by.