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Quotes from The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb — Freeman Dyson

1923–2020 England

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It is something that gives people an illusion of illimitable power, and it is, in some ways, responsible for all our troubles — this, what you might call technical arrogance, that overcomes people when they see what they can do with their minds.

The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb (1981)

I have felt it myself. The glitter of nuclear weapons. It is irresistible if you come to them as a scientist. To feel it's there in your hands, to release this energy that fuels the stars, to let it do your bidding.

The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb (1981)

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