Quote by Freeman John Dyson

Published january 19, 2015 12:30

I have felt it myself. The glitter of nuclear weapons. It is irresistible if you come to them as a scientist. To feel it's there in your hands, to release this energy that fuels the stars, to let it do your bidding. To perform these miracles, to lift a million tons of rock into the sky. It is something that gives people an illusion of illimitable power, and it is, in some ways, responsible for all our troubles, this, what you might call technical arrogance, that overcomes people when they see what they can do with their minds.