We May Be Likened To Two Scorpions

If We Ask, For Instance, Whether The Position Of The Electron Remains The Same, We Must Say 'no'; If We Ask Whether The Electron's Position Changes With Time, We Must Say 'no'; If We Ask Whether The Electron Is At Rest, We Must Say 'no'; If We Ask Whether It Is In Motion, We Must Say 'no'.

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.

Sometimes The Answer To Fear Does Not Lie In Trying To Explain Away The Causes, Sometimes The Answer Lies In Courage.

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.

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.