Men Will Gather Knowledge No Matter What

When An Old And Distinguished Person Speaks To You, Listen To Him Carefully And With Respect — But Do Not Believe Him. Never Put Your Trust Into Anything But Your Own Intellect. Your Elder, No Matter Whether He Has Gray Hair Or Has Lost His Hair, No Matter Whether He Is A Nobel Laureate — May Be Wrong. The World Progresses, Year By Year, Century By Century, As The Members Of The Younger Generation Find Out What Was Wrong Among The Things That Their Elders Said. So You Must Always Be Skeptical — Always Think For Yourself.

The Power To Destroy The World By The Use Of Nuclear Weapons Is A Power That Cannot Be Used - We Cannot Accept The Idea Of Such Monstrous Immorality.

There Is No Safe Amount Of Radiation. Even Small Amounts Do Harm.

During The Time That [karl] Landsteiner Gave Me An Education In The Field Of Imununology, I Discovered That He And I Were Thinking About The Serologic Problem In Very Different Ways. He Would Ask, What Do These Experiments Force Us To Believe About The Nature Of The World? I Would Ask, What Is The Most. Simple And General Picture Of The World That We Can Formulate That Is Not Ruled By These Experiments? I Realized That Medical And Biological Investigators Were Not Attacking Their Problems The Same Way That Theoretical Physicists Do, The Way I Had Been In The Habit Of Doing.

I Try To Identify Myself With The Atoms ... I Ask What I Would Do If I Were A Carbon Atom Or A Sodium Atom.