Never underestimate the joy people derive from hearing something they already know.

Young man, if I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist.

It does not say in the Bible that all laws of nature are expressible linearly!

One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this appalling problem. Actually there was no choice. Once basic knowledge is acquired, any attempt at preventing its fruition would be as futile as hoping to stop the earth from revolving around the sun.

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.

Where is everybody? Humans could theoretically colonize the galaxy in a million years or so, and if they could, astronauts from older civilizations could do the same. So why haven't they come to Earth?

It is not good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.