But What Sin Is To The Moralist

With All Our Mastery Over The Powers Of Nature We Have Adhered To The View That The Struggle For Existence Is A Permanent And Necessary Condition Of Life.

It Is Probable That All Heavy Matter Possesses - Latent And Bound Up With The Structure Of The Atom - A Similar Quantity Of Energy To That Possessed By Radium. If It Could Be Tapped And Controlled What An Agent It Would Be In Changing The World's Destiny! The Man Who Put His Hand On The Lever By Which A Parsimonious Nature Regulates So Jealously The Output Of This Store Of Energy Would Possess A Weapon By Which He Could Destroy The Earth If He Chose.

Heat Energy Of Uniform Temperature [is] The Ultimate Fate Of All Energy. The Power Of Sunlight And Coal, Electric Power, Water Power, Winds And Tides Do The Work Of The World, And In The End All Unite To Hasten The Merry Molecular Dance.

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.

[the Human Control Of Atomic Energy Could] Virtually Provide Anyone Who Wanted It With A Private Sun Of His Own.