“Politicians – well, first of all, they should get rid of nuclear weapons, I think.”

Personally I would like to see that the nuclear age, in terms of power, does come, because there’s no long-term future for developing countries without nuclear power.

People either buy nuclear power, nuclear reactors from outside, and don’t train their own men, or they just don’t go into nuclear power at all, they are so afraid of it.

Before Chernobyl or without Chernobyl the nuclear power was the safe thing.

This sense of wonder leads most scientists to a Superior Being – der Alte, the Old One, as Einstein affectionately called the Deity – a Superior Intelligence, the Lord of all Creation and Natural Law.

Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.

I am a particle physicist, which is the nearest branch to nuclear physics. So in that sense I was the sort of right connection with the subject of nuclear energy and so on.

The Chernobyl technology is different from the technology which is used in the west, mainly.

I’m afraid there’s a big confusion in the world between nuclear power and nuclear arms.

In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.

The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.

Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.

Mankind spends much more on training pilots of aircraft than it does to train the nuclear reactor operators.

Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me – it was the sublime quality of patience – patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment – which I sadly lacked.

In the first place the family provides society with an orderly means of reproduction,

First Corinthians 6:20 says ‘For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.’

When I did his fashion show, he was the first one to arrive there and he helped everyone.

I used to be very shy. When I first started, I had to go to a casting, and I had to go in a bikini.

Men throw broken things away, but God never uses anything until he first breaks it.

I would have walked on the waterBut I wasn’t fully insured.

And the BMA sent a writ my wayWith the very first leper I cured.

Well, I think just the fact that you are making your first film is a huge step.