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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

Climate change is also clearly a matter of huge interest and concern for the scientific community.

The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.

My interest in matters more directly concerned with the handling of particles was growing, in the meantime, stimulated by many contacts with people understanding accelerators.