If We Take Science As Our Sole

The Sunbeams Are Welcome Now. They Seem Like Pure Electricity—like Friendly And Recuperating Lightning. Are We Led To Think Electricity Abounds Only In Summer, When We See In The Storm-clouds As It Were, The Veins And Ore-beds Of It? I Imagine It Is Equally Abundant In Winter, And More Equable And Better Tempered. Who Ever Breasted A Snowstorm Without Being Excited And Exhilarated, As If This Meteor Had Come Charged With Latent Auroræ Of The North, As Doubtless It Has? It Is Like Being Pelted With Sparks From A Battery.

[t]he Cold Warms Me—after A Different Fashion From That Of The Kitchen Stove.

One Summer Day, While I Was Walking Along The Country Road On The Farm Where I Was Born, A Section Of The Stone Wall Opposite Me, And Not More Than Three Or Four Yards Distant, Suddenly Fell Down. Amid The General Stillness And Immobility About Me The Effect Was Quite Startling. ... It Was The Sudden Summing Up Of Half A Century Or More Of Atomic Changes In The Material Of The Wall. A Grain Or Two Of Sand Yielded To The Pressure Of Long Years, And Gravity Did The Rest.

Maybe That Will Happen With Other Countries As Well. And So, That's Why One Of The Things That Groups Like Mine That Work For The Elimination Of Nuclear Weapons And Work For Their Marginalization In The Meantime, We Say You Have To Diminish The Political Value That's Attached To Nuclear Weapons In Order To Give Them Less (kind Of) Desirability In The Eyes Of Governments That Do Not Now Have Them, And Thus To Help Stop Their Spread.

The Smallest Deed Is Better Than The Greatest Intention.