The powerful notion of entropy, which comes from a very special branch of physics … is certainly useful in the study of communication and quite helpful when applied in the theory of language.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

A pragmatist is concerned with results, not reality.

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 proper to the role of the scientist that he not merely find new truth and communicate it to his fellows, but that he teach, that he try to bring the most honest and intelligible account of new knowledge to all who will try to learn.

'It worked.' (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation).

The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change; the greatest novelty the extent of novelty.