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

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.

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.

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.

he hates skiing but he loves the mountains and like that with everything.

When your mind is still and undisturbed by stimulation, the true nature naturally shines out and you can directly see what you really are.

As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar it will cease to be popular.

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

I like to run the slants. The slants are cool. I like routes that you can catch the ball running.

and the color in my eyes has gone back into the sea.

They never differentiate between drug users and drug addicts... I've done most drugs there are socially, I never had a problem.

I was the only swimmer in movies. Tarzan was long gone, and he couldn't have done them anyway; he could never have gotten into my bathing suit

I see myself as someone who's been saved by writing. God knows what I would have been, become or how I would have ended up without it.