“There is nothing worth having that can be obtained by nuclear war - no...” — George Wald Quote

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

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win.

And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.

We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.

When I defend, it keeps me patient and lets my game come to me on the offensive end.

We need to protect every life and that we need to defend the lives of the unborn.

Once you're done being president, you tend to want to defend your record more than plumb your inner feelings. I find it hard to imagine Obama going home at night and writing sensitive, introspective journal entries about his meeting with John Boehner.

I grew up in a family where my father always told me, defend your ideas when you think your ideas are good, and struggle to get your story written. And I've always fought for that.