The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

The victor belongs to the spoils.

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.

I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

With the exception of gravitation and radioactivity, all of the phenomena known to physicists and chemists in 1911 have their ultimate explanation in the laws of quantum electrodynamics.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

My father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that medicine was too vague and inexact, so I chose physics.

If a projectile were deprived of the force of gravity, it would not be deflected toward the earth but would go off in a straight line into the heavens and do so with uniform motion, provided that the resistance of the air were removed.

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

Because atomic behavior is so unlike ordinary experience, it is very difficult to get used to, and it appears peculiar and mysterious to everyone – both to the novice and to the experienced physicist.

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

When you feel like it’s too hard to obey God, remember that He will never tell you to do something without giving you the grace, power and ability to do it.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap – it is all in the mind.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

Today, all physicists know from studying Einstein and Bohr that sometimes an idea which looks completely paradoxical at first, if analyzed to completion in all detail and in experimental situations, may, in fact, not be paradoxical.

I can’t say this enough – the food that you put into your bodies can actually help you get better grades. And it can also affect your performance in sports and other activities too. You see, when you give your body the best possible fuel, you have more energy, you’re stronger, you think more quickly.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?

I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.

Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.