Let us cherish the hope that the day is not far distant when we will be in the midst of this next adventure.

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. Instead of an attic with a few test tubes, bits of wire and odds and ends, the attack on the atomic nucleus has required the development and construction of great instruments on an engineering scale.

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.

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.

It never does much good to find out why you can't; put your effort into what you can do.

The atomic bombs will surely shorten the war, and let us hope that they will effectively end war as a possibility in human affairs.

For it goes without saying that this great recognition at this time will aid tremendously our efforts to find the necessarily large funds for the next voyage of exploration farther into the depths of the atom.