I Hope It Won't Take Long.

Although The Problem Of Transmuting Chemical Elements Into Each Other Is Much Older Than A Satisfactory Definition Of The Very Concept Of Chemical Element, It Is Well Known That The First And Most Important Step Towards Its Solution Was Made Only Nineteen Years Ago By The Late Lord Rutherford, Who Started The Method Of The Nuclear Bombardments.

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.

Whatever Nature Has In Store For Mankind, Unpleasant As It May Be, Men Must Accept, For Ignorance Is Never Better Than Knowledge.

Young Man, If I Could Remember The Names Of These Particles, I Would Have Been A Botanist.

It Is Not Good To Try To Stop Knowledge From Going Forward. Ignorance Is Never Better Than Knowledge.