The Genius Is In Making The Complex

We Scientists, Whose Tragic Destination Has Been To Help In Making The Methods Of Annihilation More Gruesome And More Effective, Must Consider It Our Solemn And Transcendent Duty To Do All In Our Power In Preventing These Weapons From Being Used For The Brutal Purpose For Which They Were Invented.

Strange Is Our Situation Here On Earth. Each Of Us Comes For A Short Visit, Not Knowing Why, Yet Sometimes Seeming To Divine A Purpose.

Of What Significance Is One's Existence, One Is Basically Unaware. What Does A Fish Know About The Water In Which He Swims All His Life? The Bitter And The Sweet Come From Outside. The Hard From Within, From One's Own Efforts. For The Most Part I Do What My Own Nature Drives Me To Do. It Is Embarrassing To Earn Such Respect And Love For It.

There Is An Atmosphere Of Well-sounding Oratory That Likes To Attach Itself To Dress Clothes. Away With It!

If I Had Foreseen Hiroshima And Nagasaki, I Would Have Torn Up My Formula In 1905.