A state-of-the-art calculation requires 100 hours of CPU time on the state-of-the-art computer, independent of the decade.

The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function.

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.

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

Today, nothing is unusual about a scientific discovery's being followed soon after by a technical application: The discovery of electrons led to electronics; fission led to nuclear energy. But before the 1880's, science played almost no role in the advances of technology. For example, James Watt developed the first efficient steam engine long before science established the equivalence between mechanical heat and energy.