Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

Genius sees the answer before the question.

There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.

The people of this world must unite or they will perish.

When we deny the EVIL within ourselves, we dehumanize ourselves, and we deprive ourselves not only of our own destiny but of any possibility of dealing with the EVIL of others.

I do not want chemistry to degenerate into a religion

We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.

Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.

I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world.

The end...is just the beginning

But I really believe that if you have the ability, there is an obligation to make people laugh

We haven't ever known our past. Your kids are no stupider than their grandparents.

If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.

I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point.

Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.