“This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton.

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”

“Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, Bohr is one of the amiable colleagues I have met. He utters his opinions like one perpetually groping and never like one who believes himself to be in possession of the truth.”

“Life is just like a game, First you have to learn rules of the game, And then play it better then any one else.”

“I don't pretend to understand the universe — it's much bigger than I am.”

“For rebelling against every form of authority fate has punished me by making me an authority.”

“live as if you were to die tommorow. dream as if you were to live forever”

“A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.”

“A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.”

“The tendencies we have mentioned are something new for America. They arose when, under the influence of the two World Wars and the consequent concentration of all forces on a military goal, a predominantly military mentality developed, which with the almost sudden victory became even more accentuated. The characteristic feature of this mentality is that people place the importance of what Bertrand Russell so tellingly terms “naked power” far above all other factors which affect the relations between peoples. The Germans, misled by Bismarck’s successes in particular, underwent just such a transformation of their mentality—in consequence of which they were entirely ruined in less than a hundred years. I must frankly confess that the foreign policy of the United States since the termination of hostilities has reminded me, sometimes irresistibly, of the attitude of Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm II, and I know that, independent of me, this analogy has most painfully occurred to others as well. It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors (atom bombs, strategic bases, weapons of all sorts, the possession of raw materials, etc.) are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts—in short, the psychological factors—are considered as unimportant and secondary. Herein lies a certain resemblance to Marxism, at least insofar as its theoretical side alone is kept in view. The individual is degraded to a mere instrument; he becomes “human materiel.” The normal ends of human aspiration vanish with such a viewpoint. Instead, the military mentality raises “naked power” as a goal in itself—one of the strangest illusions to which men can succumb.”

“Imagination is intelligence having fun.”

“Nonsense, seems to sum up everything.”

“Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will.”

“People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.”

“Subtle is the Lord. Malicious, He is not.”