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

All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.

Every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about three billion years.

There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are the only men.

A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives.

When you have no experience of pain, it is rather hard to experience joy.

I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.