They had found a creative middle way, between the hierarchical world of big business and the utopian dreams of ffudent rebellion. - Freeman Dyson

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

The cult of military obedience and the cult of weapons of mass destruction are the two great follies of the modern age.

I have felt it myself. The glitter of nuclear weapons. It is irresistible if you come to them as a scientist. To feel it's there in your hands, to release this energy that fuels the stars, to let it do your bidding. To perform these miracles, to lift a million tons of rock into the sky. It is something that gives people an illusion of illimitable power, and it is, in some ways, responsible for all our troubles — this, what you might call technical arrogance, that overcomes people when they see what they can do with their minds.