“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.”

“We thought it would be nice to have atoms interact in such a gentle way with the photons that they would just take an imprint of the photons, so that many atoms could 'see' the same photon and it would give rise to a lot of interesting effects. Myself and my colleagues had this project for a very lo”