When You See Something That Is Technically

Discovery Follows Discovery, Each Both Raising And Answering Questions, Each Ending A Long Search, And Each Providing The New Instruments For A New Search.

We Do Not Believe Any Group Of Men Adequate Enough Or Wise Enough To Operate Without Scrutiny Or Without Criticism. We Know That The Only Way To Avoid Error Is To Detect It, That The Only Way To Detect It Is To Be Free To Inquire. We Know That In Secrecy Error, Undetected, Will Flourish And Subvert.

This World Of Ours Is A New World, In Which The Unit Of Knowledge, The Nature Of Human Communities, The Order Of Society, The Order Of Ideas, The Very Notions Of Society And Culture Have Changed, And Will Not Return To What They Have Been In The Past. What Is New Is New, Not Because It Has Never Been There Before, But Because It Has Changed In Quality.

[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.

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.