"I was visiting friends in Princeton one Saturday in the 1950s when our host asked his son-in-law, Bill Bennett, and m…"

"Might a worldview suggested by quantum mechanics have relevance beyond science? Consider earlier discoveries that did…"

"Our book originated with a wide-ranging physics course for liberal arts students that in its last weeks focused on th…"

"Can you think of any problem in any area of human endeavor on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose long-term …"

"We must realize that growth is but an adolescent phase of life that stops when physical maturity is reached. If growt…"

"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is man's inability to understand the exponential function."

"I remember having listened to Fermi’s discussions on hydrodynamics with von Neumann. (These took the strange form of …"

"If some nuclear properties of the heavy elements had been a little different from what they turned out to be, it migh…"

"In an enterprise such as the building of the atomic bomb the difference between ideas, hopes, suggestions and theoret…"

"In scientific matters there was a common language and one standard of values; in moral and political problems there w…"