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.

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

Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.

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

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

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

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.