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

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

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

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

Maybe General Groves was right. Maybe we should just banish thinking forever.

[About the great synthesis of atomic physics in the 1920s:] It was a heroic time. It was not the doing of any one man; it involved the collaboration of scores of scientists from many different lands. But from the first to last the deeply creative, subtle and critical spirit of Niels Bohr guided, restrained, deepened and finally transmuted the enterprise.

Pragmatism is an intellectually safe but ultimately sterile philosophy.