No single achievement in science is possible without the painstaking work of the many hundreds who have built the foundation on which all new work is based.

No single achievement in science is possible without the painstaking work of the many hundreds who have built the foundation on which all new work is based.

I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.

Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used.

I count myself fortunate to be able to participate in the life of science in this era.

If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands.

We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics.