Truth, Not A Pet, Is Man's Best

But When You Come Right Down To It The Reason That We Did This Job Is Because It Was An Organic Necessity. If You Are A Scientist You Cannot Stop Such A Thing. If You Are A Scientist You Believe That It Is Good To Find Out How The World Works; That It Is Good To Find Out What The Realities Are; That It Is Good To Turn Over To Mankind At Large The Greatest Possible Power To Control The World And To Deal With It According To Its Lights And Values.

If We Must Live With A Perpetual Sense That The World And The Men In It Are Greater Than We And Too Much For Us, Let It Be The Measure Of Our Virtue That We Know This And Seek No Comfort.

When You See Something That Is Technically Sweet, You Go Ahead And Do It And You Argue About What To Do About It Only After You Have Had Your Technical Success. That Is The Way It Was With The Atomic Bomb.

Bertrand Russell Had Given A Talk On The Then New Quantum Mechanics, Of Whose Wonders He Was Most Appreciative. He Spoke Hard And Earnestly In The New Lecture Hall. And When He Was Done, Professor Whitehead, Who Presided, Thanked Him For His Efforts, And Not Least For 'leaving The Vast Darkness Of The Subject Unobscured'.

When All Thermonuclear Sources Of Energy Are Exhausted A Sufficiently Heavy Star Will Collapse. Unless Fission Due To Rotation, The Radiation Of Mass, Or The Blowing Off Of Mass By Radiation, Reduce The Star's Mass To The Order Of That Of The Sun, This Contraction Will Continue Indefinitely.