The Physicists Have Known Sin; And This

We May Anticipate A State Of Affairs In Which Two Great Powers Will Each Be In A Position To Put An End To The Civilization And Life Of The Other, Though Not Without Risking Its Own. We May Be Likened To Two Scorpions In A Bottle, Each Capable Of Killing The Other, But Only At The Risk Of His Own Life.

The Most Beautiful Philosophical Song Existing In Any Known Tongue.

The General Notions About Human Understanding...which Are Illustrated By Discoveries In Atomic Physics Are Not In The Nature Of Things Wholly Unfamiliar, Wholly Unheard Of, Or New. Even In Our Own Culture, They Have A History, And In Buddhist And Hindu Thought A More Considerable And Central Place. What We Shall Find Is An Exemplification, An Encouragement, And A Refinement Of Old Wisdom.

When All Thermonuclear Sources Of Energy Are Exhausted A Sufficiently Heavy Star Will Collapse. Unless Fission Due To Rotation, The Radiation Of Mass, Or The Blowing Off Of Mass By Radiation, Reduce The Star's Mass To The Order Of That Of The Sun, This Contraction Will Continue Indefinitely.

Things Which Stimulate My Curiosity Are Pretty Far Removed From The Practical And Therefore From Classification.