To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction. – Sir Alfred Jules Ayer
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. Thats where we come in; were computer professionals. We cause accidents. – Nathaniel Borenstein
But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction. – Joseph Rotblat
