Excerpt from the Johannesburg Address -

Though fondly we hope and fervently pray that this great scourge of war shall speedily, still we must not derogate the promise of the laser science so misused by the lesser angels of our natures.

Acceleration of light quanta, while sweeping aside old boundaries of physical science, issues grave warnings to the social sciences. We may yet disenthrall ourselves from history to become the judges of our own past - gods of ourselves, as it were.

Let us then so conduct ourselves in the right, as we are given to see the right, that these generations do not vanish from the annals of time.

- A. Lincoln