“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.

The new cycle which begins with the ninth year of the Fascist regime places the alternative in even greater relief either we or they, either their ideas or ours, either our State or theirs!

I am an avid believer that education – and especially early childhood development – is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty.

The right remedy for the trade cycle is not to be found in abolishing booms and thus keeping us permanently in a semi-slump; but in abolishing slumps and thus keeping us permanently in a quasi-boom.

Well, some people say I’m pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history of mankind right up to this moment and what do you find?

The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.

The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.

We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.

The Government’s first priority on coming to office was to secure long-term economic stability and put an end to the damaging cycle of boom and bust.