Nothing is boring if you look at carefully.

If you don't have a nasty obituary you probably didn't matter.

We have these amazing gifts of music and mathematics and painting and Olympic running. I mean, we're the animal that is best of all the animals at long-distance running. Why? It is quite amazing. Superfluous gifts you don't really need to survive.

Well germ warfare of course exists. There have been on a small scale... There have been, of course, a few people who got killed with anthrax right here in Princeton.

Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent.

If women are doing a Ph.D., they have a conflict between raising a family or finishing the degree, which is just at the worst time - between the ages of 25 to 30 or whatever it is. It ruins the five years of their lives.

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.