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• It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan.
  The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons....
• The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it.
  -- J. Robert Oppenheimer, "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists" 1951...
• We should take care not to make the intellect our god
  it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. -- Albert Einstei...
• Our crude civilization engenders a multitude of wants, and law-givers are ever at their wit's end devising.
  The hall and the theater and the church have been invented, and compulsory education....
• The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
  Albert Einstei...
• The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.
• When democracy granted democratic methods to us in times of opposition, this was bound to happen in a democratic system.
  However, we National Socialists never asserted that we represented a democratic point of view, but we have declared openly that we used the democratic methods only to gain power and that, after assuming the power, we would deny to our adversaries without any consideration the means which were granted to us in times of our opposition....
• The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem.
  It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one....