From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits.

No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid.

In the Radiation Laboratory we count it a privilege to do everything we can to assist our medical colleagues in the application of these new tools to the problems of human suffering.

Let us cherish the hope that the day is not far distant when we will be in the midst of this next adventure.

The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work.

I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment.

I have gotten over feeling badly. We would be eternally miserable if our errors worried us too much because as we push forward we will make plenty more.

The atomic bombs will surely shorten the war, and let us hope that they will effectively end war as a possibility in human affairs.

It never does much good to find out why you can't; put your effort into what you can do.

But there is no joy in Mudville - mighty Casey has "struck out."

Certainly, it may bring to light such a deeper knowledge of the structure of matter as to constitute a veritable discontinuity in the progress of science.

By thinking mostly about everything that has gone wrong, is going wrong, and can possibly go wrong, the thinker is bound to end up in a lousy mental and emotional state.

Hollywood's Studio Era was part of a Golden Age because it didn't need profanity (unlike reality-television today)

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

any pursuit of happiness contrary to the common good is doomed to failure.

I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love.

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

I write down portions, maybe fragments, and perhaps an imperfect view of what Im hoping to write. Out of that, I keep trying to find exactly what I want.

I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man. I am very blessed to be who I am.

In America there is a channel called TruTV which is just reruns of 'Cops' and 'World's Dumbest Criminals'. I could watch that the entire day.

There are certain things I will automate, but when it comes to quality control, I want to keep a very close eye.