Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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- The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
- I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
- The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass and beyond there is a different country.
- In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
- In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.