His Security Depends on Building Weapons that will Destroy Him

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We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms. – Samuel Butcher




Science cannot stop while ethics catches up – and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country. – Elvin Stackman



Science at best is not wisdom; it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgement. – Lord Ritchie-Calder



One of the most pernicious falsehoods ever to be almost universally accepted is that the scientific method is the only reliable way to truth. – Richard H. Bube



In all science error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. – Horace Walpole



The tragedy of scientific man is that he has found no way to guide his own. He has devised no weapon so terrible that he has not used it. He has guarded none so carefully that his enemies have not eventually obtained it and turned it against him. – His security today and tomorrow seems to depend on building weapons which will destroy him tomorrow. – Charles A Lindbergh

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