I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy should seize upon me, a scientist, dealing in abstract things and happy if left alone, is a manifestation of mass psychology that is beyond me.

If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

Don't dream of being a good person, be a human being is valuable and gives value to life.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.

Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot

It would be a sad situation if the bag was better than the meat wrapped in it.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.