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J. Robert Oppenheimer

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.

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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J. Robert Oppenheimer

There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

There are children playing in the street 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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J. Robert Oppenheimer

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

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J. Robert Oppenheimer

I am become Death, shatterer of worlds.

I am become Death, shatterer of worlds.