The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century.

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.

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.

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.

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