Any brief military advantage the USA might gain with nuclear weapons would be offset by political and psychological losses and damage to American prestige. The United States might even touch off a worldwide armaments race.

Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

Our task is to widen our circle of compassion to include all living beings and all of nature

The more I learn of physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics.

artificial intellegance is no match for natural stupidity

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.