There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality.

We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.

When we deny the EVIL within ourselves, we dehumanize ourselves, and we deprive ourselves not only of our own destiny but of any possibility of dealing with the EVIL of others.

We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.

The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

When you see something that is technically sweet you go ahead and do it.

There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry... There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.