"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…"

"The fact that self-interest can work against the common good is far-reaching, and no general solution is known."

"Someone once said that he had made many mistakes in life, but never because he knew too much."

"Despite the babbling of the creationists, evolution is inevitable in a competitive world, and it does work."