"It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not attempt to prevent it from doing so."

"The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose. It is a knowledge which has changed them forever."

"The greatest discoveries are those that shatter our preconceived notions."

"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."

"We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent."