'it Worked.' (said After Witnessing The First

Despite The Vision And Farseeing Wisdom Of Our Wartime Heads Of State, The Physicists Have Felt The Peculiarly Intimate Responsibility For Suggesting, For Supporting, And In The End, In Large Measure, For Achieving The Realization Of Atomic Weapons. Nor Can We Forget That These Weapons As They Were In Fact Used Dramatized So Mercilessly The Inhumanity And Evil Of Modern War. In Some Sort Of Crude Sense Which No Vulgarity, No Humor, No Overstatement Can Quite Extinguish, The Physicists Have Known Sin; And This Is A Knowledge Which They Cannot Lose.

The Atomic Bomb Made The Prospect Of Future War Unendurable. It Has Led Us Up Those Last Few Steps To The Mountain Pass; And Beyond There Is A Different Country.

[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.

It Is Proper To The Role Of The Scientist That He Not Merely Find New Truth And Communicate It To His Fellows, But That He Teach, That He Try To Bring The Most Honest And Intelligible Account Of New Knowledge To All Who Will Try To Learn.

We Know Too Much For One Man To Know Too Much.