"It worked." (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation according to brother, Frank) |
Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries. |
Any man [Albert Einstein] whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man. |
Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. |
Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. |
Doctor Atomic |
I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. |
I'll never forget his walk; I'll never forget the way he stepped out of the car.... This kind of strut. He had done it. |
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 knowledge which they cannot lose. |
In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days. |
No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows. |
The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country. |
The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country. |
The most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue. |
The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of men for its furtherance - these are what may make a vast, complex, ever growing, ever changing, ever more specialized and expert technological world, nevertheless a world of human community. |