From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.

Mankind spends much more on training pilots of aircraft than it does to train the nuclear reactor operators.

Politicians - well, first of all, they should get rid of nuclear weapons, I think.

Before Chernobyl or without Chernobyl the nuclear power was the safe thing.

Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

This sense of wonder leads most scientists to a Superior Being - der Alte, the Old One, as Einstein affectionately called the Deity - a Superior Intelligence, the Lord of all Creation and Natural Law.

People either buy nuclear power, nuclear reactors from outside, and don't train their own men, or they just don't go into nuclear power at all, they are so afraid of it.