I now see the necessity of a beginning.

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war.

My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature not by other feelings.

To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.

The analogy I like is this imagine being able to see the world but you are deaf, and then suddenly someone gives you the ability to hear things as well - you get an extra dimension of perception.

This has been done elegantly by Minkowski; but chalk is cheaper than grey matter, and we will do it as it comes.