The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.
From Edward Teller
Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.
I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous.
Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets.
Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.
No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.
My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.
Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.
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