Intuitive powers played a central role in my scientific work, not wild speculation, yet a valued resource when no other approach was available.

Knowledge and ego are directly related. the less knowledge, the greater the ego

I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them.

We cannot get to where we dream of being tomorrow unless we change our thinking today.

I am of the opinion that all the finer speculations in the realm of science spring from a deep religious feeling, and that without such feeling they would not be fruitful.

I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones.

Culture in its higher forms is a delicate plant which depends on a complicated set of conditions and is wont to flourish only in a few places at any given time.