It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don't mean anything unless this generation has a future. And we're not sure that it does.

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A scientist should be the happiest of men.

A scientist should be the happiest of men.

The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake,...

The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake,...

A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know.

A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know.

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

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

There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material...

There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material...

The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to...

The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to...

The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way...

The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way...

There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is...

There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is...

I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company.

I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company.

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

We have to get rid of those nuclear weapons.

We have to get rid of those nuclear weapons.

All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of...

All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of...

Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as...

Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as...

To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.

To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.

We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about...

We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about...

The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life.

The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life.

A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize.

A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize.

As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the number of Americans who...

As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the number of Americans who...

The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them.

The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them.

In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can...

In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can...