Birth: September 2, 1877 Death: September 22, 1956
On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries..
There has been no discovery like it in the history of man. It puts into man's hands the key to using the fundamental energy of the universe..
[The human control of atomic energy could] virtually provide anyone who wanted it with a private sun of his own..
But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance..