The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life.

The great questions are those an intelligent child asks and, getting no answers, stops asking.

I have often had cause to feel that my hands are cleverer than my head. That is a crude way of characterizing the dialectics of experimentation. When it is going well, it is like a quiet conversation with Nature. One asks a question and gets an answer, then one asks the next question and gets the next answer. An experiment is a device to make Nature speak intelligibly. After that, one only has to listen.

Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack.

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.