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

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

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.

A scientist should be the happiest of men. Not that science isn't serious; but as everyone knows, being serious is one way of being happy, just as being gay is one way of being unhappy.

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

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

I do not want to believe in God. Therefore I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation leading to evolution.