There is nothing worth having that can he 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.

With my wife Camille's help, I took to social networking. I'm working with the computers.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

Thought is the fountain of speech.

People are transported to that space that Poe wanted to make available to us.

If you're good at something, never do it for free.

It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.

I left our home to work on a movie, and while I was away, my boyfriend [Billy Bob Thorton] got married, and I've never heard from him again.

I don't take a lot of notice of odds.

You are always walking in the direction of either love or fear. Choose wisely.

To this day I always say my prayers on my knees 'cause I think maybe they get there sooner.