"We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow."

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Source : 1939 After an early experiment at Columbia University which proved the possibility of splitting the atom. Quoted in James B Simpson Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1988).

Leo Szilard

#Home Quotes #Night Quotes #Sorrow Quotes

“Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.”
“For good or for bad, India has rejected a more totalitarian approach to how it will deal with its social problems. We would starve but we would not give up our democracy and our love for our freedoms and to deal with these problems in an atmosphere of democracy and the rule of law without necessarily going, sort of resorting to civil disobedience or any kind of violent revolution.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“The only thing that really inspired me for singing was the movie and musical 'Phantom of the Opera.' I went to see it in the theaters, and I loved it so much. And when I got home, I started singing the songs around the house, and my mom thought I was really good, so she asked me if I wanted to do a talent competition. And I said, 'Yes, definitely.'”
“No longer mere earthbeings and planetbeings are we, but bright children of the stars! And together we shall dance in and out of ten billion years, celebrating the gift of consciousness until the stars themselves grow cold and weary, and our thoughts turn again to the beginning.”
“Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.”
“I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.”
“There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.”
“All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side.”

Source : Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.27

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