It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

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.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.

My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.