Young Man, If I Could

It Is Not Good To Try To Stop Knowledge From Going Forward. 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.

There Are Two Possible Outcomes: If The Result Confirms The Hypothesis, Then You've Made A Measurement. If The Result Is Contrary To The Hypothesis, Then You've Made A Discovery.

I Hope It Won't Take Long.

[on What Characteristics Nobel Prize Winning Physicists Had In Common] I Cannot Think Of A Single One, Not Even Intelligence.