Truth, Not A Pet, Is Man's Best

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.

We Do Not Believe Any Group Of Men Adequate Enough Or Wise Enough To Operate Without Scrutiny Or Without Criticism. We Know That The Only Way To Avoid Error Is To Detect It, That The Only Way To Detect It Is To Be Free To Inquire. We Know That In Secrecy Error, Undetected, Will Flourish And Subvert.

It Is Not Possible To Be A Scientist Unless You Believe That It Is Good To Learn... That It Is Of The Highest Value To Share Your Knowledge... With Anyone Who Is Interested... That The Knowledge Of The World, And The Power Which This Gives, Is A Thing Which Is Of Intrinsic Value To Humanity

It Is A Profound And Necessary Truth That The Deep Things In Science Are Not Found Because They Are Useful; They Are Found Because It Was Possible To Find Them.

I Remembered The Line From The Hindu Scripture, The Bhagavad-gita... "now I Am Become Death, The Destroyer Of Worlds." I Suppose We All Thought That, One Way Or Another.