"I felt it in 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 the energy that fuels the stars. To let it do your bidding. And 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, I would say, this is what you might call 'technical arrogance' that overcomes people when they see what they can do with their minds."

-----Freeman Dyson, talking about his work on nuclear weaponry in the NYT Magazine