The Chernobyl technology is different from the technology which is used in the west, mainly.

Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.

Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

I'm afraid there's a big confusion in the world between nuclear power and nuclear arms.

The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.

Before Chernobyl or without Chernobyl the nuclear power was the safe thing.

Politicians - well, first of all, they should get rid of nuclear weapons, I think.

Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.

From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.

In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

People either buy nuclear power, nuclear reactors from outside, and don't train their own men, or they just don't go into nuclear power at all, they are so afraid of it.

...the desert is so huge, and the horizons so distant, that they make a person feel small, and as if he should remain silent.

If you have never failed you have never lived.

When my first wife & I began the school, we had one main idea: to make the school fit the child - instead of making the child fit the school.

We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more liberating, than the claims of any religion.

Don't you hate code that's not properly indented? Making it [indenting] part of the syntax guarantees that all code is properly indented.

If you got everything you wanted, you wouldn't have everything you need.

I like America. I think it's pretty cool.

I'll take anything and slap it on a canvas.

Old Year! upon the Stage of Time You stand to bow your last adieu; A moment, and the prompter's chime Will ring the curtain down on you.

Books simply help you to see what is already within your self. That's what enlightenment is all about.