To men like that, time was a surfeit, a barrel they watched slowly drain. When really, he thinks, it’s a glowing puddle you carry in your hands; you should spend all your energy protecting it.
A building should celebrate its structure, not hide it.
I think the world is in a state where we need to hear the truth.
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.
So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.
The beauty of science lies in its ability to explain the natural world.