I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. Read Summary
The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish. Read Summary
No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows. Read Summary
I need physics more than friends. Read Summary
To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly. Read Summary
Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Read Summary
It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them. Read Summary
In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged. Read Summary
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. Read Summary
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man. Read Summary
There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors. Read Summary
Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful. Read Summary
In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose. Read Summary
My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things. Read Summary
I never accepted Communist dogma or theory. Read Summary
It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them. Read Summary
I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community. Read Summary
I was born in New York in 1904. Read Summary
My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art. Read Summary
To recruit staff, I traveled all over the country talking with people who had been working on one or another aspect of the atomic-energy enterprise and people in radar work, for example, and underwater sound, telling them about the job, the place that we are going to, and enlisting their enthusiasm. Read Summary