Ignorance Is Never Better Than Knowledge

It Is Not Good To Try To Stop Knowledge From Going Forward. Ignorance Is Never Better Than Knowledge.

The Fact That No Limits Exist To The Destructiveness Of This Weapon [the 'super', I.e. The Hydrogen Bomb] Makes Its Very Existence And The Knowledge Of Its Construction A Danger To Humanity As A Whole. It Is Necessarily An Evil Thing Considered In Any Light. For These Reasons, We Believe It Important For The President Of The United States To Tell The American Public And The World What We Think Is Wrong On Fundamental Ethical Principles To Initiate The Development Of Such A Weapon.

The Fundamental Point In Fabricating A Chain Reacting Machine Is Of Course To See To It That Each Fission Produces A Certain Number Of Neutrons And Some Of These Neutrons Will Again Produce Fission.

[on What Characteristics Nobel Prize Winning Physicists Had In Common] I Cannot Think Of A Single One, Not Even Intelligence.

I Hope It Won't Take Long.