Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.

Today’s science is tomorrow’s technology.

I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous.

When you get to the end of all the light you know and it’s time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you...

My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.

Two paradoxes are better than one they may even suggest a solution.

The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.

Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets.

Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.

The scientist is not responsible for the laws of nature. It is his job to find out how these laws operate. It is the scientist’s job to find the ways in which these laws can...

Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.