The best way to send information is to wrap it up in a person.

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth.

Despite the vision and farseeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists have felt the peculiarly intimate responsibility for suggesting, for supporting, and in the end, in large measure, for achieving the realization of atomic weapons. Nor can we forget that these weapons as they were in fact used dramatized so mercilessly the inhumanity and evil of modern war. In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.

All history teaches us that these questions that we think the pressing ones will be transmuted before they are answered, that they will be replaced by others, and that the very process of discovery will shatter the concepts that we today use to describe our puzzlement.