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"Research tells us fourteen out of any ten individuals likes chocolate."

"If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."

"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living."

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

"The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them."

"Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done."

"Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears."

"There are no shortcuts in evolution."

"Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy."

"A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it."

"Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers."

"I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar."

"It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet."

"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."

"Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things in that enormous immensity."

"We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming."

"For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift."

"Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious."

"I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity."

"If I had learned to type, I never would have made brigadier general."

I don't want to see pictures of Hollywood stars in their dressing gowns taking out the rubbish. It ruins the fantasy.

I have a love-hate relationship with performing.

You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way.

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."

"One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have a nice day.""

"For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis - an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business."

"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference."

"You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world."

"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."