I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto.

I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.

My commitment to a humane and peaceful world continues to this day.

During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.

I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.

Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.

My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

Stephen King is a powerful guy, will powerful vocabulary.

Daesh members wear shoes. Does this mean everybody who wears shoes is Daesh?

What one man can invent, another can discover.

We should find God in what we do know, not in what we don't; not in outstanding problems, but in those we have already solved.

It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before they will forgive.

Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different.

When you feel victimized or sad, just allow yourself to cry; you'll feel better and have more room to experience joy.

I'm a family guy. Most important thing in my life by far is my relationship with my wife and my sons, daughters-in-law, and 18 grandchildren. And for me, this is all about them.

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry