The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.

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.

In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

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

I am a particle physicist, which is the nearest branch to nuclear physics. So in that sense I was the sort of right connection with the subject of nuclear energy and so on.

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