The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it.
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Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
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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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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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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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"It worked." (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation).
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