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.

Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.

In our educational institutions applied science may almost be described as a "no-man's land."

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous.

Knowing he [Bob Serber] was going to the [first atom bomb] test, I asked him how he planned to deal with the danger of rattlesnakes. He said, 'I'll take along a bottle of whiskey.' … I ended by asking, 'What would you do about those possibilities [of what unknown phenomena might cause a nuclear explosion to propagate in the atmosphere]?' Bob replied, 'Take a second bottle of whiskey.'

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