To the confusion of our enemies.

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

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

Despite the vision and farseeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists have felt the peculiarly intimate responsibility for suggesting, for supporting, and in the end, in large measure, for achieving the realization of atomic weapons. Nor can we forget that these weapons as they were in fact used dramatized so mercilessly the inhumanity and evil of modern war. 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.

We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism.

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

Truth, not a pet, is man's best friend.