"Americans have only the dimmest notion of what their constitutional freedoms are - and what it took to get them...[and] the willingness to surrender what we're supposed to be fighting for is a recurring part of our history."

-- Nat Hentoff

#Fighting Quotes #Surrender Quotes #Notion Quotes

“For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced - in his smallness of mind - that his salvation came from that ally. It is only when he is alone - against all of his own efforts and frantic attempts - that he will, through no choice, be compelled to turn to G-d.”
“There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.”

Source : "Nuclear Principles in Engineering". Book by Tatjana Jevremovic, 2005.
“I'd rather lie down than jump up.”

Source : "i-D" Magazine, 1994.
“During the past 23 years, I have set a number of goals for myself and I'm proud to say that these goals have been achieved.”
“There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.”

Source : "J. Robert Oppenheimer" by L. Barnett in Life Magazine, Volume 7, No. 9, International Edition (p. 58), October 24, 1949.
“Truth is, we offered it to Tom Hanks, which pretty much every movie in America does, but Tom passed. Billy Bob said that Hanks recently called and said he's voting for all of us for Oscars, he loved the film.”
“Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.”
“Dance on the edge of mystery.”

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