It Is A Profound And Necessary Truth

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.

[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.

We Do Not Believe Any Group Of Men Adequate Enough Or Wise Enough To Operate Without Scrutiny Or Without Criticism.

Now I Am Become Death, The Destroyer Of Worlds. (quoting The Bhagavad-gita After Witnessing The First Nuclear Explosion.)