If anyone wants a hole in the ground, nuclear explosives can make big holes

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors.

There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.

I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.

The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function.

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

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

We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding.

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.

I think that intellectuals who end up in hell will have to read page proofs and check indexes there.

I see myself as Kiki de Montparnasse, trying to get Man Ray's attention. (Sofia Navarro, 7th July 2012).

Everything must belong somewhere. I know that now, that's why I'm staying here.

There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason.

it's 12 amyl nitrites (one box), in conjunction with as many beers as necessary.

No big deal. We all have blood in us, the trick is keeping it inside.

Sometimes you have to understand that you push ahead, there's going to be a lot of flak, there's going to be a lot of dogs barking, but the wagon train moves ahead.

When you make a record, you listen to it literally hundreds of times. When it's done and you can't do anything else, I never listen to my records.

the ends never justify the means because IT never ends.

You have to get out of the boat so you can know the intimacy of walking with Jesus.

It's all right to tell a wife the brutal truth, but you've got to go sort of easy with your lady-love.