A theoretical physicist can spend his entire lifetime missing the intellectual challenge of experimental work, experiencing none of the thrills and dangers - the overhead crane with its ten-ton load, the flashing skull and crossbones and danger, radioactivity signs. A theorist's only real hazard is stabbing himself with a pencil while attacking a bug that crawls out of his calculations.

He [Democritus] is probably best known for two of the most scientifically intuitive quotes ever uttered by an ancient: 'Nothing exists except atoms and space, everything else is opinion'.

By the grace of AEC, BNL, God, Green and Hayworth (alphabetical order), we should see neutrinos.

I'm so old I can remember when the Dead Sea was only sick.

Those who do not stop asking silly questions become scientists.

The British philosopher Bertrand Russell said that philosophy went downhill after Democritus and did not recover until the Renaissance.

Neutrinos ... win the minimalist contest: zero charge, zero radius, and very possibly zero mass.