Richard Rhodes

In the end, the bomb was a product of human ingenuity and folly.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war more terrible than any war that had ever been fought.

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.

The quest for knowledge often comes with dire consequences.

The challenge was to make the world safe for democracy and freedom.

The world has changed, and so has our understanding of what it means to be human.

The moral implications of scientific discovery are profound and far-reaching.

To be a scientist is to be a child at a time when the world is in a state of crisis.

The physicists had unleashed a force that could destroy the world.

We knew the world would not be the same.