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

The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change; the greatest novelty the extent of novelty.

We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism.

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.

To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.

The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita... "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.