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

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.

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

The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.

The general notions about human understanding...which are illustrated by discoveries in atomic physics are not in the nature of things wholly unfamiliar, wholly unheard of, or new. Even in our own culture, they have a history, and in Buddhist and Hindu thought a more considerable and central place. What we shall find is an exemplification, an encouragement, and a refinement of old wisdom.

Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right.