We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace more about killing than we know about living.
Youre aware the boy failed my grade school math class I take it? And not that many years later hes teaching college. Now I ask you: Is that the sorriest indictment of the American educational system you ever heard? [pauses to light cigarette.] No aptitude at all for long division but never mind. Its him they ask to split the atom. How he talked his way into the Nobel prize is beyond me. But then I suppose its like the man says Its not what you know …
MOLECULE n. The ultimate indivisible unit of matter. It is distinguished from the corpuscle also the ultimate indivisible unit of matter by a closer resemblance to the atom also the ultimate indivisible unit of matter …
We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.
Tyndall declared that he saw in Matter the promise and potency of all forms of life and with his Irish graphic lucidity made a picture of a world of magnetic atoms each atom with a positive and a negative pole arranging itself by attraction and repulsion in orderly crystalline structure. Such a picture is dangerously fascinating to thinkers oppressed by the bloody disorders of the living world. Craving for purer subjects of thought they find in the contemplation of crystals and magnets a happiness more dramatic and less childish than the happiness found by mathematicians in abstract numbers because they see in the crystals beauty and movement without the corrupting appetites of fleshly vitality.
Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima…. The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace more about killing than we know about living.
Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.
Someday man will harness the rise and fall of the tides imprison the power of the sun and release atomic power.
I celebrate myself and sing myself And what I assume you shall assume.
Youre aware the boy failed my grade school math class I take it? And not that many years later hes teaching college. Now I ask you: Is that the sorriest indictment of the American educational system you ever heard? [pauses to light cigarette.] No aptitude at all for long division but never mind. Its him they ask to split the atom. How he talked his way into the Nobel prize is beyond me. But then I suppose its like the man says Its not what you know …
MOLECULE n. The ultimate indivisible unit of matter. It is distinguished from the corpuscle also the ultimate indivisible unit of matter by a closer resemblance to the atom also the ultimate indivisible unit of matter …
If you go on with this nuclear arms race all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
The atom being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.
We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.
The power to destroy the world by the use of nuclear weapons is a power that cannot be usedwe cannot accept the idea of such monstrous immmorality.
A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating because 300 people choke to death on food every year.
The scientists split the atom; now the atom is splitting us.
Tyndall declared that he saw in Matter the promise and potency of all forms of life and with his Irish graphic lucidity made a picture of a world of magnetic atoms each atom with a positive and a negative pole arranging itself by attraction and repulsion in orderly crystalline structure. Such a picture is dangerously fascinating to thinkers oppressed by the bloody disorders of the living world. Craving for purer subjects of thought they find in the contemplation of crystals and magnets a happiness more dramatic and less childish than the happiness found by mathematicians in abstract numbers because they see in the crystals beauty and movement without the corrupting appetites of fleshly vitality.
Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima…. The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.