There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom.
One of the principal achievements of physics in the 20th century has been the revelation that the atom is not indivisible or elementary at all but has a complex structure.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that.
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
I think that it's more important for an economist to be wise and sophisticated in scientific method than it is for a physicist because with controlled laboratory experiments possible, they practically guide you; you couldn't go astray. Whereas in economics, by dogma and misunderstanding, you can go very sadly astray.
Indeed, our everyday world presents intellectual challenges just as daunting as those of the cosmos and the quantum, and that is where 99 per cent of scientists focus their efforts. Even the smallest insect, with its intricate structure, is far more complex than either an atom or a star.
The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.
The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.
Leave the atom alone.