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“ The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. ”

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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful, they are found because it was possible to find them.

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Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.

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In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

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We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.

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