The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century.

The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of men for its furtherance-these are what may make a vast, complex, ever growing, ever changing, ever more specialized and expert technological world, nevertheless a world of human community.

Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.

I can't think that it would be terrible of me to say - and it is occasionally true - that I need physics more than friends.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

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

When all thermonuclear sources of energy are exhausted a sufficiently heavy star will collapse. Unless fission due to rotation, the radiation of mass, or the blowing off of mass by radiation, reduce the star's mass to the order of that of the sun, this contraction will continue indefinitely.