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

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)

Things which stimulate my curiosity are pretty far removed from the practical and therefore from classification.

All history teaches us that these questions that we think the pressing ones will be transmuted before they are answered, that they will be replaced by others, and that the very process of discovery will shatter the concepts that we today use to describe our puzzlement.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

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

When we deny the EVIL within ourselves, we dehumanize ourselves, and we deprive ourselves not only of our own destiny but of any possibility of dealing with the EVIL of others.