“And the most beautiful words ever spoken, I have not yet said to you.”

“Living is no laughing matter:You must take it seriously.So much so and to such a degreethat, for example, your hands tiedbehind your back,your back to the wallor else in a laboratoryin your white c...”

“Separation isnt time or distanceits the bridge between usfiner than silk thread sharper than swords”

“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...”

“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...”

“My wife believes in it not one whit, but is scrupulous in its observance," said Charles Leiden, sipping from his glass. "A curious state of affairs, don't you think? We are kosher, Fermi probably a...”

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of wi...”

“My dear,Find what you love and let it kill you.Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.Let it kill you and let it devour your remains....”

“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”

“I shall write peace upon your wings,and you shall fly around the worldso that children will no longer haveto die this way.”

“I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was twenty-one, some scientist, maybe my brother, would ...”

“I shall write peace upon your wings,and you shall fly around the worldso that children will no longer haveto die this way.”