No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.

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.'

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.

One may say that predictions are dangerous particularly for the future. If the danger involved in a prediction is not incurred, no consequence follows and the uncertainty principle is not violated.

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

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