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

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

"A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms."
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"As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the number of Americans who would be killed in a major nuclear attack, with everything working as well as can be hoped and all foreseeable precautions taken, run to about fifty million."
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"When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age."
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"The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age."
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"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."
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"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."
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"Age merely shows what children we remain."
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"Never let your tiny age misguide you to think the time is not yet up. Get up and do it at any age."
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"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."
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"The golden age is before us, not behind us."
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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."
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"Not even old age knows how to love death."
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