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"There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating."
War

"I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving molecules, they can ask themselves, What would I do if I were that molecule?"
Question

"We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life."
Life

"Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited."
Age

"I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company."
Life

"I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me."
Future

"A scientist should be the happiest of men."
Men

"The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that."
Effect

"Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime."
War

"A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms."
Atoms
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"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."
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"What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men."
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"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."
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"People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery."
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"Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth."
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"The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same."
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"The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation."
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"A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth."
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"When women go wrong, men go right after them."
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"The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction."
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