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.

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.

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.

I’d do anything for her if she really wanted me to. I would even walk away from the chance of a lifetime if she asked me to... and I could even be happy about it.

Everyone wants to be famous so do I. But I cannot lose sleep over it.

Film becomes a living organism. After awhile, it begins to tell you what it needs and you're usually best listening.

None of this matters a bit. Yet, of course, it matters at that moment. So we try to be mindful of the moment; but it's fleeting.

Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything?

Fear is like the steam that fires the combustion engine. You need fear to get a performance going.

I really enjoyed doing the voice of Nose Marie on the cartoon series Pound Puppies. Fun, FUN cast.

we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today

You have to be able to imagine lives that are not yours.