We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids ?

There are questions which illuminate, and there are those that destroy. I was always taught to ask the first kind.

We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids ?

It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this. Upon seeing a distorted image of his face, reflected on the inside cylindrical surface of the bore while inside an MRI (magnetic-resonance-imaging) machine-a device made possible by his early physical researches on nuclear magnetic resonance (1938).

Physics filled me with awe, put me in touch with a sense of original causes. Physics brought me closer to God. That feeling stayed with me throughout my years in science. Whenever one of my students came to me with a scientific project, I asked only one question, 'Will it bring you nearer to God?'

[Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself.

If you decide you don't have to get A's, you can learn an enormous amount in college.