Now I Am Become Death,

There Are Children Playing In The Streets Who Could Solve Some Of My Top Problems In Physics, Because They Have Modes Of Sensory Perception That I Lost Long Ago.

I Remembered The Line From The Hindu Scripture, The Bhagavad-gita... "now I Am Become Death, The Destroyer Of Worlds." I Suppose We All Thought That, One Way Or Another.

Both The Man Of Science And The Man Of Action Live Always At The Edge Of Mystery, Surrounded By It.

Despite The Vision And Farseeing Wisdom Of Our Wartime Heads Of State, The Physicists Have Felt The Peculiarly Intimate Responsibility For Suggesting, For Supporting, And In The End, In Large Measure, For Achieving The Realization Of Atomic Weapons. Nor Can We Forget That These Weapons As They Were In Fact Used Dramatized So Mercilessly The Inhumanity And Evil Of Modern War. In Some Sort Of Crude Sense Which No Vulgarity, No Humor, No Overstatement Can Quite Extinguish, The Physicists Have Known Sin; And This Is A Knowledge Which They Cannot Lose.

To Try To Be Happy Is To Try To Build A Machine With No Other Specification Than That It Shall Run Noiselessly.