1. “A scientist should be the happiest of men.”
2. “We are products of editing, rather than of authorship.”
3. “A physicist is an atom’s way of knowing about atoms.”
4. “As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and the information keeps coming back to you all the time.”
5. “A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize.”
6. “The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them.”
7. “I think all you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack.”
8. “I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company.”
9. “The great questions are those an intelligent child asks and, getting no answers, stops asking.”
10. “We are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.”
11. “Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.”
12. “When you have no experience of pain, it is rather hard to experience joy.”
13. “A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.”
14. “Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.”
15. “I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.”
