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"Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not."
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"Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets."
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"My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win."
"I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous."
"A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective."
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