If you’re constantly open to inspiration, it will come to you. The worst thing a man can do is pressure himself into an idea.
No-one really thought of fission before its discovery.
Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe and joy that the natural order of things brings to the true scientist.
You must not blame us scientists for the use which war technicians have put our discoveries.
Life need not be easy, provided only that it is not empty.
I love physics with all my heart. . . It is a kind of personal love, as one has for a person to whom one is grateful for many things.
I will have nothing to do with a bomb! [Response to being invited (1943) to work with Otto Robert Frisch and some British scientists at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb. ]
It is human to err; and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger how much happier we would all be.
A strong foundation exists for immediate military action against Saddam Hussein and for a multilateral effort to rebuild Iraq after he is gone.
The option is always on the table. When we [with Bjork] were starting as creative kids in the Eighties, we found each other. I was 19, she was 16 and a friendship was made.