Leo Szilard

“Pronounce a sentence on the atomic bomb. It is guilty. It must be hanged.”

“I'm looking for a market for wisdom.”

“A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.”

“My private motto is: 'Whatever you do, do it completely. If you are going to sin, sin wholeheartedly.'”

“Let your acts be directed towards a worthy goal, but do not ask if they will reach it; they are to be models and examples, not means to an end.”

“Don't lie if you don't have to.”

“The most important step in getting a job is the next one.”

“Even if we should have a war, the prospects for the survival of the human race would be rather good, but the prospects for the survival of the United States would be bad.”

“If you want to succeed in this world you don't have to be much cleverer than other people, you just have to be one day earlier.”

“The creative scientist is in fact an artist.”