Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

I'll try anything...I'll even try Limburger cheese!

The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization.... Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.

I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'

From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.