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

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

We know too much for one man to know too much.

The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century.

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.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

Taken as a story of human achievement, and human blindness, the discoveries in the sciences are among the great epics.