If we must live with a perpetual sense that the world and the men in it are greater than we and too much for us, let it be the measure of our virtue ….

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days..

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lo….

We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert..

In a free world, if it is to remain free, we must maintain, with our lives if need be, but surely by our lives, the opportunity for a man to learn an….

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….

It is proper to the role of the scientist that he not merely find new truth and communicate it to his fellows, but that he teach, that he try to brin….

The theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory..

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

The general notions about human understanding...which are illustrated by discoveries in atomic physics are not in the nature of things wholly unfamil….

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

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries..

[About the great synthesis of atomic physics in the 1920s:] It was a heroic time. It was not the doing of any one man; it involved the collaboration ….

Sometimes the answer to fear does not lie in trying to explain away the causes, sometimes the answer lies in courage..

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,….

It is not possible to be a scientist unless you believe that it is good to learn... that it is of the highest value to share your knowledge... with a….

Submit an agreement providing for the peaceful absorbtion of a celestial races in such a manner that our culture would remain intact with guarantee t….

Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Both, as a measure of their creation, have always ha….

Science starts with preconception, with the common culture, and with common sense. It moves on to observation, is marked by the discovery of paradox,….

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds..

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