Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Atomic Bomb
• Anxieties
• God Of Science

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• We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Atomic Bomb
  • Anxieties
  • God Of Science