I Am Become Death, The Destroyer Of

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].

The Optimist Thinks This Is The Best Of All Possible Worlds. The Pessimist Fears It Is True.

When You See Something That Is Technically Sweet You Go Ahead And Do It.

I Think That All Things Which Evoke Discipline: Study, And Our Duties To Men And To The Commonwealth, War, And Personal Hardship, And Even The Need For Subsistence, Ought To Be Greeted By Us With Profound Gratitude, For Only Through Them Can We Attain To The Least Detachment; And Only So Can We Know Peace.

To The Confusion Of Our Enemies.