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

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.

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.

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

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.

When Cameron’s Conservatives come to power it will be a golden age for cyclists and an Elysium of cycle lanes, bike racks, and sharia law for bike thieves. And I hope that cycling in London will become almost Chinese in its ubiquity.

In the classic old business cycle, there would be a diminution in sales; it would take a little while for this information to reach corporate headquarters.

You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.

Our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be ‘revolutionary’ but not transformative.

Today, business is more like chess. Customer priorities change continually, and the signals given by these changes are vital clues to the next cycle of growth.

Transcending the cycle of death and rebirth is the real purpose of this life in human form.

In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes – a virtuous cycle of change.

Love is the most great law that ruleth this mighty and heavenly cycle, the unique power that bindeth together the divers elements of this material world