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Maybe General Groves was right. Maybe we should just banish thinking forever.


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No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.



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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.



There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.



Genius sees the answer before the question.

Genius sees the answer before the question.



There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.

There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.



The people of this world must unite or they will perish.

The people of this world must unite or they will perish.



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