In The Material Sciences These Are And

'it Worked.' (said After Witnessing The First Atomic Detonation).

Taken As A Story Of Human Achievement, And Human Blindness, The Discoveries In The Sciences Are Among The Great Epics.

Access To The Vedas Is The Greatest Privilege This Century May Claim Over All Previous Centuries.

Now I Am Become Death, The Destroyer Of Worlds. (quoting The Bhagavad-gita After Witnessing The First Nuclear Explosion.)

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.