I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

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

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

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""It worked."" (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation).

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

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The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it.

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Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

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Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

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In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

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I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.N.B. This is a paraphrase from the ancient Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita.

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