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"Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes."
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"Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes."
"Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that came along for them."
"Theories crumble, but good observations never fade."
"If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again."
"Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more."
"Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate."
"A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision."
"There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory."
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"Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes."
"And just as there was something of every Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh so there is something of Ho Chi Minh in almost every present-day Vietnamese, so strong is his imprint on the Vietnamese nation."
"France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina."
"The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city."
"When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation."
"As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty."
"Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party."
"It was necessary to bluff the Japanese camp commanders, with whatever authority I could muster, that I had come officially to ensure that the surrender terms were being complied with and that living conditions for the POWs were being immediately improved."
"My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later."
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