The Energy Available For Each Individual Man

Man Cannot Influence In This Respect The Atomic Forces Of Nature.

I Believe That There Have Been Civilisations In The Past That Were Familiar With Atomic Energy, And That By Misusing It They Were Totally Destroyed.

[this] May Prove To Be The Beginning Of Some Embracing Generalization, Which Will Throw Light, Not Only On Radioactive Processes, But On Elements In General And The Periodic Law.... Chemical Homogeneity Is No Longer A Guarantee That Any Supposed Element Is Not A Mixture Of Several Of Different Atomic Weights, Or That Any Atomic Weight Is Not Merely A Mean Number.

There Has Been No Discovery Like It In The History Of Man. It Puts Into Man's Hands The Key To Using The Fundamental Energy Of The Universe.

For A Modern Ruler The Laws Of Conservation And Transformation Of Energy, When The Vivifing Stream Takes Its Source, The Ways It Wends Its Course In Nature, And How, Under Wisdom And Knowledge, It May Be Intertwined With Human Destiny, Instead Of Careering Headlong To The Ocean, Are A Study At Least As Pregnant With Consequences To Life As Any Lesson Taught By The Long Unscientific History Of Man.