In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons.More Andrei Sakharov quotes [07/12/2011 11:07:31]

My father played the piano remarkably well, in particular Chopin, Grieg, Beethoven and Scriabin. During the civil war he earned a living by playing the accompaniment to silent films at the cinema.More Andrei Sakharov quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

We must make demands of reason and create a life worthy of ourselves and of the goals we only dimly perceiveMore Andrei Sakharov quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

I am especially grateful for the memory of my grandmother, Maria Petrovna, who was the family's good spirit. She died before the war at the age of 79. My grandmother brought up six children and when she was around 50 years old she taught herself English all on her own.More Andrei Sakharov quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Nothing threatens freedom of the personality and the meaning of life like war, poverty, terror. But there are also indirect and only slightly more remote dangers. One of these is the stupefaction of man (the "gray mass," to use the cynical term of bourgeois prognosticators) by mass culture with its intentional or commercially motivated lowering of intellectual level and content, with its stress on entertainment or utilitarianism, and with its carefully protective censorship.More Andrei Sakharov quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]