"In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose."
-J. Robert Oppenheimer
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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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