There Has Been No Discovery

In So Far As Such Developments Utilise The Natural Energy Running To Waste, As In Water Power, They May Be Accounted As Pure Gain. But In So Far As They Consume The Fuel Resources Of The Globe They Are Very Different. The One Is Like Spending The Interest On A Legacy, And The Other Is Like Spending The Legacy Itself. ... [there Is] A Still Hardly Recognised Coming Energy Problem.

On Our Plane Knowledge And Ignorance Are The Immemorial Adversaries.

The Dropping Of The Atomic Bomb Is A Very Deep Problem... Instead Of Commemorating Hiroshima We Should Celebrate... Man's Triumph Over The Problem [of Transmutation], And Not Its First Misuse By Politicians And Military Authorities.

[this] May Prove To Be The Beginning Of Some Embracing Generalization, Which Will Throw Light, Not Only On Radioactive Processes, But On Elements In General And The Periodic Law.... Chemical Homogeneity Is No Longer A Guarantee That Any Supposed Element Is Not A Mixture Of Several Of Different Atomic Weights, Or That Any Atomic Weight Is Not Merely A Mean Number.

The Pure Air And Dazzling Snow Belong To Things Beyond The Reach Of All Personal Feeling, Almost Beyond The Reach Of Life.