There Are No Secrets About The World

The General Notions About Human Understanding...which Are Illustrated By Discoveries In Atomic Physics Are Not In The Nature Of Things Wholly Unfamiliar, Wholly Unheard Of, Or New. Even In Our Own Culture, They Have A History, And In Buddhist And Hindu Thought A More Considerable And Central Place. What We Shall Find Is An Exemplification, An Encouragement, And A Refinement Of Old Wisdom.

I Think That All Things Which Evoke Discipline: Study, And Our Duties To Men And To The Commonwealth, War, And Personal Hardship, And Even The Need For Subsistence, Ought To Be Greeted By Us With Profound Gratitude, For Only Through Them Can We Attain To The Least Detachment; And Only So Can We Know Peace.

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

There Must Be No Barriers For Freedom Of Inquiry... There Is No Place For Dogma In Science. The Scientist Is Free, And Must Be Free To Ask Any Question, To Doubt Any Assertion, To Seek For Any Evidence, To Correct Any Errors.

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.