This Is A World In Which Each

This Is A World In Which Each Of Us, Knowing His Limitations, Knowing The Evils Of Superficiality And The Terrors Of Fatigue, Will Have To Cling To What Is Close To Him, To What He Knows, To What He Can Do. . .

I Am Become Death, The Destroyer Of Worlds.

But When You Come Right Down To It The Reason That We Did This Job Is Because It Was An Organic Necessity. If You Are A Scientist You Cannot Stop Such A Thing. If You Are A Scientist You Believe That It Is Good To Find Out How The World Works; That It Is Good To Find Out What The Realities Are; That It Is Good To Turn Over To Mankind At Large The Greatest Possible Power To Control The World And To Deal With It According To Its Lights And Values.

Everyone Wants Rather To Be Pleasing To Women And That Desire Is Not Altogether, Though It Is Very Largely, A Manifestation Of Vanity. But One Cannot Aim To Be Pleasing To Women Any More Than One Can Aim To Have Taste, Or Beauty Of Expression, Or Happiness; For These Things Are Not Specific Aims Which One May Learn To Attain; They Are Descriptions Of The Adequacy Of One's Living. To Try To Be Happy Is To Try To Build A Machine With No Other Specification Than That It Shall Run Noiselessly.

It Is A Profound And Necessary Truth That The Deep Things In Science Are Not Found Because They Are Useful; They Are Found Because It Was Possible To Find Them.