"We must realize that growth is but an adolescent phase of life that stops when physical maturity is reached. If growt…"

"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is man's inability to understand the exponential function."

"Can you think of any problem in any area of human endeavor on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose long-term …"

"In an enterprise such as the building of the atomic bomb the difference between ideas, hopes, suggestions and theoret…"

"I remember having listened to Fermi’s discussions on hydrodynamics with von Neumann. (These took the strange form of …"

"In scientific matters there was a common language and one standard of values; in moral and political problems there w…"

"If some nuclear properties of the heavy elements had been a little different from what they turned out to be, it migh…"

"Good health is fundamental to living a fruitful life, and although I don't contribute to people's health as a doctor,…"

"Role models are critical for anyone, including Black women in STEM in academia."

"Many important lessons stand out to me. First, do not underestimate yourself. I have done and am doing more things th…"