The Greatest Of The Changes That Science

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.

The Powerful Notion Of Entropy, Which Comes From A Very Special Branch Of Physics … Is Certainly Useful In The Study Of Communication And Quite Helpful When Applied In The Theory Of Language.

All History Teaches Us That These Questions That We Think The Pressing Ones Will Be Transmuted Before They Are Answered, That They Will Be Replaced By Others, And That The Very Process Of Discovery Will Shatter The Concepts That We Today Use To Describe Our Puzzlement.

This Is A World In Which Each Of Us, Knowing His Limitations, Knowing The Evils Of Superficiality And The Terrors Of Fatigue, Will Have To Cling To What Is Close To Him, To What He Knows, To What He Can Do. . .

In The Material Sciences These Are And Have Been, And Are Most Surely Likely To Continue To Be Heroic Days.