1. “Never underestimate the joy people derive from hearing something they already know.”
2. “Where is everybody? Humans could theoretically colonize the galaxy in a million years or so, and if they could, astronauts from older civilizations could do the same. So why haven’t they come to Earth?”
3. “It is not good to try to stop knowledge from going forward Ignorance is never better than knowledge.”
4. “Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.”
5. “An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery.”
6. “Young man, if I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist.”
7. “The fact that has no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon makes its very existence and the knowledge of its construction a danger to humanity as a whole. It is necessarily an evil thing considered in any light.”
8. “It is clear that the use of such a weapon cannot be justified on ethical ground which gives a human being a certain individuality and dignity even if he happen to be a resident of an enemy country.”
9. “The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission.”
10. “There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you’ve made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you’ve made a discovery.”
