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

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

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

The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

If we must live with a perpetual sense that the world and the men in it are greater than we and too much for us, let it be the measure of our virtue that we know this and seek no comfort.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

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.