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

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

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

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.

I think that intellectuals who end up in hell will have to read page proofs and check indexes there.

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

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.