One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.

A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies...

Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text.

I knew all the time I was going to get through the war. It was completely irrational, a silly idea, but I was not going to lie down and get myself killed. I was going to get out of it.

The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.

[George] Uhlenbeck was a highly gifted physicist. One of his remarkable traits was he would read every issue of T%he Physical Review from cover to cover.

Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?

[Heisenberg's seminal 1925 paper initiating quantum mechanics marked] one of the great jumps—perhaps the greatest—in the development of twentieth century physics.

He did not falter, as long as there was a path that led toward his goal.

Look onwards to what lies ahead.

I have remembered Who wept for a parting between the living and the dead.

The sea of reporters on her lawn made Loretta Brooks do a double take.

A natural faith is sufficient for trusting a human object; but a supernatural faith is required to trust savingly in a Divine object.

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.

I'm not the kind of actor that would know what my character had for breakfast last Tuesday.

Too much work, and no vacation, Deserves at least a small libation. So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses, Work's the curse of the drinking classes.

The American idiom has much to offer us that the English language has never heard of