"We are perhaps too near the age of transition to see clearly the interplay of all that made for progress. Each of us has had his own peculiar training, his own personal contact with the mighty ones of the immediate past; and this forms as it were a telescopic tube determining limits to our field of vision. No doubt we may range the whole horizon; but after all we look from our own point of vantage."

"I was in awe. It was hilarious after I got past the shock. But it was an incredibly surreal experience for …"

"African continent GMs do exist; but, according to the system of racial classification, I am the first Black…"

"I don’t know which is the greater task: to decentralize a top-heavy civilization or to prevent an ancient c…"

"A system in which a few things interacting produce tremendously divergent behavior; deterministic chaos; it…"

"But, because the blacks were so close to the very civilization which sought to keep them out, because they …"

"Oral History interview transcript with George Gamow 25 April 1968, American Institute of Physics, Niels Boh…"