Finally I got to carbon, and as you all know, in the case of carbon the reaction works out beautifully. One goes through six reactions, and at the en…

- Hans Bethe

I call on all scientists in all countries to cease and desist from work creating, developing, improving and manufacturing further nuclear weapons - a…

- Hans Bethe

Well, I come down in the morning and I take up a pencil and I try to THINK.

- Hans Bethe

If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for, but the methods we used to accomplish t…

- Hans Bethe

No one any longer pays attention to - if I may call it - the spirit of physics, the idea of discovery, the idea of understanding. I think it's diffic…

- Hans Bethe

I am not a philosopher.

- Hans Bethe

Today we are rightly in an era of disarmament and dismantlement of nuclear weapons. But in some countries nuclear weapons development still continues…

- Hans Bethe

Stars have a life cycle much like animals. They get born, they grow, they go through a definite internal development, and finally they die, to give b…

- Hans Bethe