It never does much good to find out why you can't; put your effort into what you can do.

The atomic bombs will surely shorten the war, and let us hope that they will effectively end war as a possibility in human affairs.

But there is no joy in Mudville - mighty Casey has "struck out."

I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment.

I am mindful that scientific achievement is rooted in the past, is cultivated to full stature by many contemporaries and flourishes only in favorable environment. No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid. In my own work this has been particularly true.

No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid.

I have gotten over feeling badly. We would be eternally miserable if our errors worried us too much because as we push forward we will make plenty more.