There is nothing worth having that can be obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.

There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are the only men.

Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.

Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company.

We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.

I do not want to believe in God. Therefore I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation leading to evolution.

All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.

I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.

Ships are but boards sailors but men.

When more Americans prefer freebies to freedom, these great United States will become a fertile ground for tyranny.

When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour.

You know, honestly - look, I'm not a journalist. This is the first, you know, tragedy that I have covered on the air.

If I lend my support to a specific cause, it has to be something that I look over and that I have a complete understanding of and it's not just some extracurricular bullshit.

The spine is the lifeline. A lot of people should go to a chiropractor but they don't know it.

He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.

I've already supported Bernie Sanders in the primaries.

Seems to me-" Lee said, feeling for the words, "seems to me the place you fight cruelty is where you find it, and the place you give help is where you see it needed.