I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company.
From George Wald
You see, every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about three billion years.
A scientist should be the happiest of men.
The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.
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.
I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.
Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.
We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated.
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