Concern for man himself must always constitute the chief objective of all technological effort

As long as there will be a man, there will be wars.

Unless Americans come to realize that they are not stronger in the world because they have the bomb but weaker because of their vulnerability to atomic attack, they are not likely to conduct their policy at Lake Success [the United Nations] or in their relations with Russia in a spirit that furthers the arrival at an understanding.

If you want to find out anything from the theoretical physicists about the methods they use, I advise you to stick closely to one principle: don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds. To him who is a discoverer in this field the products of his imagination appear so necessary and natural that he regards them, and would like to have them regarded by others, not as creations of thought but as given realities.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

The problems that exist in this world can not be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

Innovation is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure.