Truth, Not A Pet, Is Man's Best

[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.

When We Deny The Evil Within Ourselves, We Dehumanize Ourselves, And We Deprive Ourselves Not Only Of Our Own Destiny But Of Any Possibility Of Dealing With The Evil Of Others.

In The Material Sciences These Are And Have Been, And Are Most Surely Likely To Continue To Be Heroic Days.

To The Confusion Of Our Enemies.

We Know That The Wages Of Secrecy Are Corruption. We Know That In Secrecy Error, Undetected, Will Flourish And Subvert.