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.

Personally I would like to see that the nuclear age, in terms of power, does come, because there's no long-term future for developing countries without nuclear power.

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

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

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.

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

I'm afraid there's a big confusion in the world between nuclear power and nuclear arms.