Whatever Nature Has In Store

One Might Be Led To Question Whether The Scientists Acted Wisely In Presenting The Statesmen Of The World With This Appalling Problem. Actually There Was No Choice. Once Basic Knowledge Is Acquired, Any Attempt At Preventing Its Fruition Would Be As Futile As Hoping To Stop The Earth From Revolving Around The Sun.

Young Man, If I Could Remember The Names Of These Particles, I Would Have Been A Botanist.

Whatever Nature Has In Store For Mankind, Unpleasant As It May Be, Men Must Accept, For Ignorance Is Never Better Than Knowledge.

The Fact That No Limits Exist To The Destructiveness Of This Weapon [the 'super', I.e. The Hydrogen Bomb] Makes Its Very Existence And The Knowledge Of Its Construction A Danger To Humanity As A Whole. It Is Necessarily An Evil Thing Considered In Any Light. For These Reasons, We Believe It Important For The President Of The United States To Tell The American Public And The World What We Think Is Wrong On Fundamental Ethical Principles To Initiate The Development Of Such A Weapon.

Some People Stick With The Traditional, Feeling Struck By The Epic Beauty Or Blown Away By The Insane Scale Of The Universe. Personally, I Go For The Old "existential Meltdown Followed By Acting Weird For The Next Half Hour. But Everyone Feels Something.