"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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― J. Robert Oppenheimer
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- "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."
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