We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

Maybe General Groves was right. Maybe we should just banish thinking forever.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)

Submit an agreement providing for the peaceful absorbtion of a celestial races in such a manner that our culture would remain intact with guarantee that their presence not be revealed." "One must consider the fact that mis-identification of these space craft for a intercontinental missile in a re-entry phase of flight could lead to accidental nuclear war with horrible consequences.

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.