The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.
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The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them.George Wald
As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time.
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A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better.
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A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
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As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the number of Americans who would be killed in a major nuclear attack, with everything working as well as can be hoped and all foreseeable precautions taken, run to about fifty million.
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