Any Man Whose Errors Take Ten Years

I Can't Think That It Would Be Terrible Of Me To Say - And It Is Occasionally True - That I Need Physics More Than Friends.

Both The Man Of Science And The Man Of Art Live Always At The Edge Of Mystery, Surrounded By It. Both, As A Measure Of Their Creation, Have Always Had To Do With The Harmonization Of What Is New With What Is Familiar, With The Balance Between Novelty And Synthesis, With The Struggle To Make Partial Order In Total Chaos.... This Cannot Be An Easy Life.

In A Free World, If It Is To Remain Free, We Must Maintain, With Our Lives If Need Be, But Surely By Our Lives, The Opportunity For A Man To Learn Anything

[about The Great Synthesis Of Atomic Physics In The 1920s:] It Was A Heroic Time. It Was Not The Doing Of Any One Man; It Involved The Collaboration Of Scores Of Scientists From Many Different Lands. But From The First To Last The Deeply Creative, Subtle And Critical Spirit Of Niels Bohr Guided, Restrained, Deepened And Finally Transmuted The Enterprise.

If Atomic Bombs Are To Be Added As New Weapons To The Arsenals Of A Warring World, Or To The Arsenals Of Nations Preparing For War, Then The Time Will Come When Mankind Will Curse The Names Of Los Alamos And Hiroshima. The People Must Unite Or They Will Perish.