Genius Sees The Answer Before The Question.

If Atomic Bombs Are To Be Added As New Weapons To The Arsenals Of A Warring World, Or To The Arsenals Of Nations Preparing For War, Then The Time Will Come When Mankind Will Curse The Names Of Los Alamos And Hiroshima. The People Must Unite Or They Will Perish.

There Are Children Playing In The Streets Who Could Solve Some Of My Top Problems In Physics, Because They Have Modes Of Sensory Perception That I Lost Long Ago.

I Can't Think That It Would Be Terrible Of Me To Say - And It Is Occasionally True - That I Need Physics More Than Friends.

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.

It Is A Profound And Necessary Truth That The Deep Things In Science Are Not Found Because They Are Useful; They Are Found Because It Was Possible To Find Them.