Nuclear physics is interesting but it is unlikely to help society.

When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge of nuclear physics.

Football isn't nuclear physics, but it's not so simple that you can make it simple. It takes some explaining to get it across.

Of course Will was right again. But I realized clearly for the first time how desperate our plight was. It has been foolish to think we could rescue Kai. Now, wherever he is, it couldn't be worse than being held captive by pirates. Even cannibals were more trustworthy.

I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce.

I did a thesis in experimental nuclear physics under the direction of Samuel K. Allison.