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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Alas, my being the James Bond of vampires isn't the whole issue. Vanity must wait.

It was there, in particular, that I confirmed the truth that love, which we cry up as the source of our pleasures, is nothing more than an excuse for them.

Be What You Want To Be, Not Who Others Wants To See

Progress comes from finding better ways to do things. Don't be afraid of innovation. Don't be afraid of ideas that are not your own.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn't want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.

Call me old-fashioned, but I like my conditioners to be conditioners and my shampoos to be shampoos.

Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.

Don't over-analyze your marriage; it's like yanking up a fragile indoor plant every 20 minutes to see how its roots are growing.

To be a man you've gotta beat the man.