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These days, you have to have a gimmick to do the weather. You have to have an act. ”
Viewers figure, 'Uncle Willard doesn't know any more about the weather than I do.' They're right. ”
And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement. ”
The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom. ”
True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person. ”
We hope that this honor you have done us will bring the time of further realization of these benefits closer and will help all mankind to live better and be happier through the atom and isotopes. ”
Expressing anger is a form of public littering. ”
A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout. ”
I found that my career at Bell Telephone Labs thrived because of the environment, which encouraged cooperative research, offered opportunities for access to sophisticated equipment, and fellowship. ”
It is a great honor to be awarded a Nobel Prize. This is a wonderful experience for my wife Betty and me. We received congratulations by email, phone and post, many from old friends we had not seen for some time. ”