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

The concept of war crimes is an American invention.

As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time.

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.

I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company. I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving molecules, they can ask themselves, What would I do if I were that molecule? I tell them, Try to feel like a molecule; and if you work hard, who knows? Some day you may get to feel like a big molecule!

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.

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.