We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated.
The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them.
Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.
A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives.
A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better.
A scientist should be the happiest of men.
All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.
And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.
Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.
As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time.
It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don't mean anything unless this generation has a future. And we're not sure that it does.
I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.
I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company.