The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
If any of these women had been here instead of Nynaeve, the world would have ended.
Man armed with science is like a baby with a box of matches.
In the years since man unlocked the power stored up within the atom, the world has made progress, halting, but effective, toward bringing that power under human control. The challenge may be our salvation. As we begin to master the destructive potentialities of modern science, we move toward a new era in which science can fulfill its creative promise and help bring into existence the happiest society the world has ever known.
Giving me a a new idea is like handing a cretin a gun, but I do thank you anyhow, bang bang.
Then I have some bad news for you, because humans are going to destroy each other as soon as it becomes easy enough to, which will be very soon.
Every word is a messenger. Some have wings; some are filled with fire; some are filled with death.
The information was kept hidden for the same reason we keep matches from children. In the correct hands, fire can provide illumination... but in the wrong hands, fire can be highly destructive.
Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
Man must be at once more humble and more confident; more humble in the face of destructive potentials of what he can achieve, more confident of his own humanity as against computers and robots which are only engines to simulate him.
Religion is not a nice thing. It is potentially a very dangerous thing because it involves a heady complex of emotions, desires, yearnings and fears.
Charlie Sheen has the potential to cause your soul to weep and forfeit
Personally I think there is no doubt that sub-atomic energy is available all around us, and that one day man will release and control its almost infinite power. We cannot prevent him from doing so and can only hope that he will not use it exclusively in blowing up his next door neighbour. (1936)
Somehow don't be bored, but if you must, use it in action. Use its destructive potential.
The power to hurt ... has evolved in a direct relationship to technological advancement.
Guns are dangerous and damaging even when no one gets shot. They really do loom.
My belief is that science is to wreck us, and that we are like monkeys monkeying with a loaded shell; we don't in the least know or care where our practically infinite energies come from or will bring us to.
Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate. Embryonic bonfires, each bearing a seed of destruction so potent it could tumble cities and dash kings to their knees.
Words can sometimes be used to confuse, but it's up to the practitioners of the study of language to apply them for good and not for evil. It is just like fire; fire can heat your house or burn it down.
As for the "triumphs of science," let us honour, with astonishment and awe, the genius of those who invented them; but let us remember that the things themselves are as a gun or a sword, with which we can kill our enemy, but with which also our enemy can kill us.
I am the evil seed.
The human imagination, which is our great glory, has grown so powerful that we can barely unleash it on the surface of the planet.
But for that blindness which is inseparable from malice, what terrible powers of evil would it possess! Fortunately for the world, its venom, like that of the rattlesnake, when most poisonous, clouds the eye of the reptile, and defeats its aim.
