The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

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

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

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

The general notions about human understanding...which are illustrated by discoveries in atomic physics are not in the nature of things wholly unfamiliar, wholly unheard of, or new. Even in our own culture, they have a history, and in Buddhist and Hindu thought a more considerable and central place. What we shall find is an exemplification, an encouragement, and a refinement of old wisdom.

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

Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right.