Shocking Sayings
1,935 sayings found from the Modern era
I am thinking about something much more important than bombs. I am thinking about computers.
It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature.
Computers are like humans - they do everything except think.
Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.
Technological possibilities are irresistible to man. If man can go to the moon, he will. If he can control the climate, he will.
I would like to make a confession which may seem immoral: I do not believe absolutely in Hilbert space any more.
There probably is a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn't.
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.
Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently.
We knew that we had created a new means of warfare, and the question as to what nation, to what victorious nation we were willing to entrust this brainchild of ours was a moral decision more than anything else. We wanted to see the world spared anoth…
The working conditions there were absolutely horrible. I saw the Mittelwerk several times, once while these prisoners were blasting new tunnels in there and it was a pretty hellish environment. I'd never been in a mine before, but it was clearly wors…
During my visits in the Mittelwerk, I never saw a dead man nor did I ever see a beating or a killing.
Not joining [the Nazi Party] would have meant that I would have had to abandon the work of my life.
The guidelines of what we ought to do are furnished in the moral law of God. It is no longer enough that we pray that God may be with us on our side. We must learn again that we may be on God's side.
Our knowledge and use of the laws of nature that enable us to fly to the Moon also enable us to destroy our home planet with the atom bomb. Science itself does not address the question whether we should use the power at our disposal for good or for e…
Conquering the universe one has to solve two problems: gravity and red tape. We could have mastered gravity.
It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things in that enormous immensity.
Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.
In this age of space flight, when we use the modern tools of science to advance into new regions of human activity, the Bible... remains in every way an up-to-date book.
Don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go — and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.