"Good physics can be done if we have a good shop. … Given a good shop and good measurement equipment a sound physicist…"

"One of the most fertile and original men I have ever known. … He was a rare combination, almost unique, of a theoreti…"

"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…"

"As an outsider, I have observed that Uganda has made tremendous strides from the Amin era."