When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.

My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them.

I had an agenda. It was a very smooth transition.

Scientists have reaped rich rewards, they have sat high in government councils and have been blinded by the attractiveness of public life-all this because they happen to have been good killers.

It's a difficult question of relations between people.

For my own personal growth I had to set out on my own.

Don’t be quick to get angry.

Don't liberal Democrats ever learn economic principles, or does their class warfare trump all else?

It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.

The vital spirit. L'élan vital

When the Dodgers left, it was not only a loss of a team, it was the disruption of a social pattern. A total destruction of a culture.

There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it.

The people accusing me of being productive don't know how hard it is for me to just bend my elbow sometimes.

I sat in a garage and invented the future.

How much better the world would be if we all gave gifts of understanding, and compassion, of service, and friendship, of kindness and gentleness.