[Adams and Sellars show us its seductive horror, the painful dilemma that no amount of hindsight can assuage.] Lord, ... these affairs are hard on the heart.

This is a world in which each of us, knowing his limitations, knowing the evils of superficiality and the terrors of fatigue, will have to cling to what is close to him, to what he knows, to what he can do. . .

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.

The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.

I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.
N.B.: This is a paraphrase from the ancient Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita.