"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."

"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."

"The atomic bomb is a weapon which is new in many respects. It is a weapon of terror, a weapon for exterminating whole populations."

"We have to learn to live with the uncertainty and the ambiguity of the atomic age."

"Science is a voyage of discovery, not a destination."