We know too much for one man to know too much.

We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.

The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century.

We may anticipate a state of affairs in which two Great Powers will each be in a position to put an end to the civilization and life of the other, though not without risking its own. We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.

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

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

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.