The research included neutron resonance spectroscopy, the angular distribution of pion elastic and inelastic scattering on nuclei with optical model fitting.

My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.

In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics.

The Maria Mayer shell model suggestion in 1949 was a great triumph and fitted my belief that a nuclear shell model should represent a proper approach to understanding nuclear structure.

people's hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what's at the bottom. All you can do is guess from what comes floating to the surface every once in a while

It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.

In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty, your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.

I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments.

Cycling isn’t a game, it's a sport. Tough, hard and unpitying, and it requires great sacrifices. One plays football, or tennis, or hockey. One doesn’t play at cycling.

Condoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms.

Victorian sorrow: the stars are winking in the sky, but not for us.

There is a wide knowledge gap between us and the developed world in the West and in Asia. Our only choice is to bridge this gap as quickly as possible, because our age is defined by knowledge.

I longed to read everything I possibly could, and the things I read in turn produced new yearnings.

Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.