Why the World Doesn't Seem to Make Sense Quotes

“The problem is our ignorance. We have to own up to it. We’re the species that, in the New Mexican desert in 1945, wondered if our new experiment might ignite the atmosphere and incinerate the Earth. We discussed it and thought it unlikely, but we could not be certain. Yet we went ahead and exploded the first atomic bomb anyway.”
― Steve Hagen, Why the World Doesn't Seem to Make Sense: An Inquiry into Science, Philosophy, and Perception