Genius Sees The Answer Before The Question.

Discovery Follows Discovery, Each Both Raising And Answering Questions, Each Ending A Long Search, And Each Providing The New Instruments For A New Search.

There Must Be No Barriers To Freedom Of Inquiry... There Is No Place For Dogma In Science. The Scientist Is Free, And Must Be Free To Ask Any Question, To Doubt Any Assertion, To Seek For Any Evidence, To Correct Any Errors. Our Political Life Is Also Predicated On Openness. We Know That The Only Way To Avoid Error Is To Detect It And That The Only Way To Detect It Is To Be Free To Inquire. And We Know That As Long As Men Are Free To Ask What They Must, Free To Say What They Think, Free To Think What They Will, Freedom Can Never Be Lost, And Science Can Never Regress.

[about The Great Synthesis Of Atomic Physics In The 1920s:] It Was A Heroic Time. It Was Not The Doing Of Any One Man; It Involved The Collaboration Of Scores Of Scientists From Many Different Lands. But From The First To Last The Deeply Creative, Subtle And Critical Spirit Of Niels Bohr Guided, Restrained, Deepened And Finally Transmuted The Enterprise.

Science Starts With Preconception, With The Common Culture, And With Common Sense. It Moves On To Observation, Is Marked By The Discovery Of Paradox, And Is Then Concerned With The Correction Of Preconception. It Moves Then To Use These Corrections For The Designing Of Further Observation And For More Refined Experiment. And As It Moves Along This Course The Nature Of The Evidence And Experience That Nourish It Becomes More And More Unfamiliar; It Is Not Just The Language That Is Strange [to Common Culture].

We Knew The World Would Not Be The Same. A Few People Laughed, A Few People Cried, Most People Were Silent. I Remembered The Line From The Hindu Scripture, The Bhagavad-gita; Vishnu Is Trying To Persuade The Prince That He Should Do His Duty And, To Impress Him, Takes On His Multi-armed Form And Says, "now I Am Become Death, The Destroyer Of Worlds." I Suppose We All Thought That, One Way Or Another.