If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the war.

All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.

Never say, "I tried it once and it did not work."

A theory that you can't explain to a bartender is probably no damn good.

We haven't got the money, so we've got to think.

An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid.

It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

I must confess it was very unexpected and I am very startled at my metamorphosis into a chemist.

Death does not wait for you to be ready.

I'm always looking for things I imagine must exist, but don't - this is usually the impetus to create that thing myself.

When the government sees a poor area, its solution is to move the poor out.

There are some dreams that get stuck between your teeth when you sleep, so that when you open your mouth to yawn awake they fly right out of you.

Well it's all right to cry. It helps a great deal sometimes.

We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.

I can't be a Christian on my own. I need a community. I need the church.

As long as you want to please everyone, you won't please anyone.

The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction.

Did you know David Letterman was offered millions of dollars to do a commercial for dog food?