The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all; and for that I am especially grateful.

A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.

Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.

So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.

The concept of war crimes is an American invention.

I think if a physician wrote on a death certificate that old age was the cause of death, he'd be thrown out of the union. There is always some final event, some failure of an organ, some last attack of pneumonia, that finishes off a life. No one dies of old age.

Most modern biologists, having reviewed with satisfaction the downfall of the spontaneous generation hypothesis, yet unwilling to accept the alternative belief in special creation, are left with nothing.