The people of this world must unite or they will perish.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

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.

We may anticipate a state of affairs in which two Great Powers will each be in a position to put an end to the civilization and life of the other, though not without risking its own. We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.

We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth.