A pragmatist is concerned with results, not reality..

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

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds..

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

The powerful notion of entropy, which comes from a very special branch of physics … is certainly useful in the study of communication and quite helpf….

But when you come right down to it the reason that we did this job is because it was an organic necessity. If you are a scientist you cannot stop suc….

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

The most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue..

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….

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

I need physics more than friends..

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..

I think that all things which evoke discipline: study, and our duties to men and to the commonwealth, war, and personal hardship, and even the need f….

'It worked.' (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation)..

Things which stimulate my curiosity are pretty far removed from the practical and therefore from classification..

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….

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

To the confusion of our enemies..

We know too much for one man to know too much..

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

We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoi….