Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Both, as a measure of their creation, have always had to do with the harmonization of what is new with what is familiar, with the balance between novelty and synthesis, with the struggle to make partial order in total chaos.... This cannot be an easy life.

The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.

You can certainly destroy enough of humanity so that only the greatest act of faith can persuade you that what's left will be human.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)

We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism.

The theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory.