Our business is with life, not death.

Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.

The concept of war crimes is an American invention.

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.

The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life.

You see, every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about three billion years.

There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

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.

To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.

We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.

We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life.

We have to get rid of those nuclear weapons.