Ernest words

In a courtyard at Manchester University is Rutherford's Garden,* which today, the day Hawking delivers the first of this year's Reith Lectures,  displays this disquieting message.

[*an "interdisciplinary ecological research project that will artfully explore the tangible interrelationships between Rutherford’s iconic ‘splitting the atom’ discovery in 1917, the bitter-sweet legacy of Nuclear Physics, The Manchester Museum’s Botany Collection, and the applied science of Phytoremediation"].