Andrei Sakharov

"I want to emphasize that the question of regulating birth rates is highly complex and that any standardized, dogmatic solution "for all time and all peoples" would be wrong."

"Thousands of years ago, tribes of human beings suffered great privations in the struggle to survive. In this struggle it was important not only to be able to handle a club, but also to possess the abi…"

"I grew up in a large communal apartment where most of the rooms were occupied by my family and relations and only a few by outsiders. The house was pervaded by a strong traditional family spirit — a v…"

"It is imperative that we restrict in every possible way the influence of neo-Stalinists in our political life."

"Andrei Sakharov’s Ideas Today"

"I foresee a universal information system , which will give everyone access at any given moment to the contents of any book that has ever been published or any magazine or any fact. The UIS will have i…"

"We regard as "scientific" a method based on deep analysis of facts, theories, and views, presupposing unprejudiced, unfearing open discussion and conclusions. The complexity and diversity of all the p…"

"The experience of past wars shows that the first use of a new technical or tactical method of attack is usually highly effective even if a simple antidote can soon be developed. But in a thermonuclear…"