To The Confusion Of Our Enemies.

The Atomic Bomb Made The Prospect Of Future War Unendurable. It Has Led Us Up Those Last Few Steps To The Mountain Pass; And Beyond There Is A Different Country.

Science Starts With Preconception, With The Common Culture, And With Common Sense. It Moves On To Observation, Is Marked By The Discovery Of Paradox, And Is Then Concerned With The Correction Of Preconception. It Moves Then To Use These Corrections For The Designing Of Further Observation And For More Refined Experiment. And As It Moves Along This Course The Nature Of The Evidence And Experience That Nourish It Becomes More And More Unfamiliar; It Is Not Just The Language That Is Strange [to Common Culture].

Both The Man Of Science And The Man Of Art Live Always At The Edge Of Mystery, Surrounded By It. Both, As A Measure Of Their Creation, Have Always Had To Do With The Harmonization Of What Is New With What Is Familiar, With The Balance Between Novelty And Synthesis, With The Struggle To Make Partial Order In Total Chaos.... This Cannot Be An Easy Life.

When We Deny The Evil Within Ourselves, We Dehumanize Ourselves, And We Deprive Ourselves Not Only Of Our Own Destiny But Of Any Possibility Of Dealing With The Evil Of Others.

Submit An Agreement Providing For The Peaceful Absorbtion Of A Celestial Races In Such A Manner That Our Culture Would Remain Intact With Guarantee That Their Presence Not Be Revealed." "one Must Consider The Fact That Mis-identification Of These Space Craft For A Intercontinental Missile In A Re-entry Phase Of Flight Could Lead To Accidental Nuclear War With Horrible Consequences.