If I Had Only Known,

It Should Be Possible To Explain The Laws Of Physics To A Barmaid.

In The Temple Of Science Are Many Mansions, And Various Indeed Are They That Dwell Therein And The Motives That Have Led Them Thither. Many Take To Science Out Of A Joyful Sense Of Superior Intellectual Power; Science Is Their Own Special Sport To Which They Look For Vivid Experience And The Satisfaction Of Ambition; Many Others Are To Be Found In The Temple Who Have Offered The Products Of Their Brains On This Altar For Purely Utilitarian Purposes.

Nor Do I Take Into Account A Danger Of Starting A Chain Reaction Of A Scope Great Enough To Destroy Part Or All Of The Planet...but It Is Not Necessary To Imagine The Earth Being Destroyed Like A Nova By A Stellar Explosion To Understand Vividly The Grow Ing Scope Of Atomic War And To Recognize That Unless Another War Is Prevented It Is Likely To Bring Destruction On A Scale Never Before Held Possible, And Even Now Hardly Conceived, And That Little Civilization Would Survive It.

I Cannot Imagine A God Who Rewards And Punishes The Objects Of His Creation, Whose Purposes Are Modeled After Our Own -- A God, In Short, Who Is But A Reflection Of Human Frailty. Neither Can I Believe That The Individual Survives The Death Of His Body, Although Feeble Souls Harbor Such Thoughts Through Fear Or Ridiculous Egotisms.

There Exists A Passion For Comprehension, Just As There Exists A Passion For Music. That Passion Is Rather Common In Children, But Gets Lost In Most People Later On. Without This Passion There Would Be Neither Mathematics Nor Natural Science.