It is important that we should understand the "handwriting" of atoms for it is something which has not been thought out by man; it has far deeper meaning. Even when we shall have mastered and understood it, let us not forget that is the content not the words which is important in a tragedy or comedy and that this also holds good for our world.

Philosophic Problems of Nuclear Science - Chapter 7 (p. 108), Faber & Faber Ltd. 1952