"Fission is a process of deadly fascination; had nature chosen her constants just a little differently, we should have been deprived of its potential for social good and spared its power for social evil. Despite the former and despite the undeniable fact that the latter is responsible for nuclear and particle physics being decades in advance of what would otherwise have been their time, I know what my own choice for the constants would have been."
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Sir Denys Wilkinson, medalist of the Royal Society, Comments on Nuclear and Particle Physics 2, 146 (1968).
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