In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
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The true scientist never loses the faculty of amusement. It is the essence of his being.
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There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.
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The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it.
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"It worked." (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation).
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When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.
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