If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and Hiroshima. The people must unite or they will perish.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

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

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.

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

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

If we ask, for instance, whether the position of the electron remains the same, we must say 'no'; if we ask whether the electron's position changes with time, we must say 'no'; if we ask whether the electron is at rest, we must say 'no'; if we ask whether it is in motion, we must say 'no'.