Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human duty. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than physics.

— Bernard Baruch, Speech to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (1946)

Speech of 14 June 1946, reported in Alfred J. Kolatch's Great Jewish Quotations (1996).

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