I Believe That There Have

In So Far As Such Developments Utilise The Natural Energy Running To Waste, As In Water Power, They May Be Accounted As Pure Gain. But In So Far As They Consume The Fuel Resources Of The Globe They Are Very Different. The One Is Like Spending The Interest On A Legacy, And The Other Is Like Spending The Legacy Itself. ... [there Is] A Still Hardly Recognised Coming Energy Problem.

But What Sin Is To The Moralist And Crime To The Jurist So To The Scientific Man Is Ignorance.

The Dropping Of The Atomic Bomb Is A Very Deep Problem... Instead Of Commemorating Hiroshima We Should Celebrate... Man's Triumph Over The Problem [of Transmutation], And Not Its First Misuse By Politicians And Military Authorities.

It Is Probable That All Heavy Matter Possesses - Latent And Bound Up With The Structure Of The Atom - A Similar Quantity Of Energy To That Possessed By Radium. If It Could Be Tapped And Controlled What An Agent It Would Be In Changing The World's Destiny! The Man Who Put His Hand On The Lever By Which A Parsimonious Nature Regulates So Jealously The Output Of This Store Of Energy Would Possess A Weapon By Which He Could Destroy The Earth If He Chose.

Heat Energy Of Uniform Temperature [is] The Ultimate Fate Of All Energy. The Power Of Sunlight And Coal, Electric Power, Water Power, Winds And Tides Do The Work Of The World, And In The End All Unite To Hasten The Merry Molecular Dance.