"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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Source : Lawrence Kushner (2001). “Jewish Spirituality: A Brief Introduction for Christians”, p.61, Jewish Lights Publishing

J. Robert Oppenheimer

#Sweet Quotes #History Quotes #Bombs Quotes

“But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: â€œThis is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.”
“There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home.”
“Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill; The Ploughboy is whooping â€” anon â€” anon! There's joy in the mountains: There's life in the fountains; Small clouds are sailing, Blue sky prevailing; The rain is over and gone.”
“The art of communicating is to speak with a non judging sensitivity and mean it rather than impulsively verbalizing whatever feelings arise; there's no better way to make a point.”
“Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.”
“I was a huge fantasy geek growing up. I was the dungeon master in my D&D game.”
“That, to me, is a kind of brilliant environmental ju-jitsu - using the energy of the market and the profit-motive to get businesses to invest in preserving and improving natural systems.”
“Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.”

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