“Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.”

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

Don’t fight forces, use them.

Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

Tension is the great integrity.

Man knows so much and does so little.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

Generally, achieving goals… which in many cases means winning… is really the ultimate in this life we live in.

We rest our case on the production numbers.

Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.

I was a basket case, you know? When I got mad, I threw clubs, you know? And if things weren’t going well.

In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.

I believe this uranium business will give the Anglo-Saxons such tremendous power that Europe will become a bloc under Anglo-Saxon domination. If that is the case, it will be a very good thing. I wonder whether Stalin will be able to stand up to the others as he has done in the past.

The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form – the one of the particles, the other of the waves – are both incomplete and have only the validity of analogies which are accurate only in limiting cases.

If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations.