Our business is with life, not death.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.
A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.
Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.
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.