Today, it is not only that our kings do not know mathematics, but our philosophers do not know mathematics and - to go a step further - our mathematicians do not know mathematics.

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

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

A pragmatist is concerned with results, not reality.

I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita... "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.

The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of men for its furtherance-these are what may make a vast, complex, ever growing, ever changing, ever more specialized and expert technological world, nevertheless a world of human community.

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