Some problems are just too complicated for rational, logical solutions. They admit of insights, not answers.
The atomic bombs will surely shorten the war, and let us hope that they will effectively end war as a possibility in human affairs.
The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work.
In the Radiation Laboratory we count it a privilege to do everything we can to assist our medical colleagues in the application of these new tools to the problems of human suffering.
No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid.
Let us cherish the hope that the day is not far distant when we will be in the midst of this next adventure.
I have gotten over feeling badly. We would be eternally miserable if our errors worried us too much because as we push forward we will make plenty more.
You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.
I wish I'd known at the beginning that all I really had to do is trust myself. Everything would work out as if by magic once I actually leaned back into my imagination and just let it work, and not question it and not fret about it.
One day my dad said, "If you guys ever stop singing, I'll drop you like a hot potato. " That's what he said. It hurt me. You don't say that to children and I never forgot it.
One feels very blessed to be born into a family like the Birla family, which is a household name in India, which stands for tradition, is yet contemporary, stands for trust.