U.S. has lost a battle more important and greater than Pearl Harbor.

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.

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

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

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

Society's emissions of carbon dioxide may or may not turn out to have something significant to do with global warming-the jury is still out.