If not for me, the H-bomb would have been developed in Russia first. In the U.S., we'd now be speaking Russian.

Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.

If anyone wants a hole in the ground, nuclear explosives can make big holes

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

In the theater you create a moment, but in that moment, there is a touch, a twinkle of eternity. And not just eternity, but community. . . . That connection is a sense of life for me.