Everybody after Fukushima had to reassess the safety of nuclear. When I set out to design a reactor, I knew it had to be passive and intrinsically safe.
You just don't get funding to go out and find God. Even if you did, you'd have to first define what you mean by 'God.'
Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.
If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.
A city plays the role of a great big magnet that's sucking people up.
All great results in our universe are founded in motions and forces the most minute.
The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.
Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence.
Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.
The concept of 'peak oil' has penetrated the hearts and minds of people concerned about energy for the future. 'Peak fish' occurred around the end of the 1980s.
Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and that the function of the scientist was to figure out the mathematical rules whereby the universe was created.
The truth is that anyone, almost anyone, who receives the Nobel Prize has some indirect knowledge of one sort or another that they may be a candidate.
What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.
Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.
We could live at the present day without a Plato, but a double number of Newtons is required to discover the secrets of nature, and to bring life into harmony with the laws of nature.
One of the wonderful things about Internet is it's like a salon. It brings people together from different intellectual walks of life.
The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.
Love is really the only thing we can possess, keep with us, and take with us.
If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.
