Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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You can certainly destroy enough of humanity so that only the greatest act of faith can persuade you that what's left will be human.
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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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