The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.

The individual protests against the world, but he doesn't get beyond protest, he is just a single protester. When he wants to be more than that, he has to counter power with power, he has to oppose the system with another system.

Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back

Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.

Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.