[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 ….

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowle….

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,….

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

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

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

There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry... There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any questi….

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

Truth, not a pet, is man's best friend..

Bertrand Russell had given a talk on the then new quantum mechanics, of whose wonders he was most appreciative. He spoke hard and earnestly in the Ne….

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 ….

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….

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful..

We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scri….

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 technic….

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 b….

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man..

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….

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….

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