With All Our Mastery Over The Powers

The Fact Remains That, If The Supply Of Energy Failed, Modern Civilization Would Come To An End As Abruptly As Does The Music Of An Organ Deprived Of Wind.

The Real Value Of Science Is In The Getting, And Those Who Have Tasted The Pleasure Of Discovery Alone Know What Science Is. A Problem Solved Is Dead. A World Without Problems To Be Solved Would Be Devoid Of Science.

[this] May Prove To Be The Beginning Of Some Embracing Generalization, Which Will Throw Light, Not Only On Radioactive Processes, But On Elements In General And The Periodic Law.... Chemical Homogeneity Is No Longer A Guarantee That Any Supposed Element Is Not A Mixture Of Several Of Different Atomic Weights, Or That Any Atomic Weight Is Not Merely A Mean Number.

[the Blame For The Future 'plight Of Civilization] Must Rest On Scientific Men, Equally With Others, For Being Incapable Of Accepting The Responsibility For The Profound Social Upheavals Which Their Own Work Primarily Has Brought About In Human Relationships.

It Is Curious To Reflect, For Example, Upon The Remarkable Legend Of The Philosopher's Stone, One Of The Oldest And Most Universal Beliefs, The Origin Of Which, However Far Back We Penetrate Into The Records Of The Past, We Do Not Probably Trace Its Real Source.