“My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school: So? Did you learn anything today? But not my mother. Izzy, she would...”

“To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to existence as well as a knowledge, understanding, love, and admiratio...”

“We must also teach science not as the bare body of fact, but more as human endeavor in its historic contextin the context of the effects of scientific thought on every kind of thought. We must teac...”

“As yet, if a man has no feeling for art he is considered narrow-minded, but if he has no feeling for science this is considered quite normal. This is a fundamental weakness.”

“After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned to Father and said, 'Science has now known sin.' And do you know what F...”

“I come and stand at every doorBut none can hear my silent treadI knock and yet remain unseenFor I am dead for I am deadI'm only seven though I diedIn Hiroshima long agoI'm seven now as I was thenWh...”

“For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discoverythat most unstable existential momentthe external world, nature itself, deeply confirms his innermost fantastic convictions. Anchored abruptly i...”

“I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it.”

“If you want to brighten up a person's day.Give them a rainbow.”

“I can assure you that the life outside the front door is bright and full of life”