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And I thought about the psychic numbing involved in strategic projections of using hydrogen bombs or nuclear weapons of any kind. And I also thought about ways in which all of us undergo what could be called the numbing of everyday life.

— Robert Jay Lifton

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.

— Emile M. Cioran

We are both disturbed and fascinated by visions of bleak futures, predictions of what might come if we as a society aren't careful.

— Marie Lu

The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

— Rene Magritte

Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

— Leon Trotsky

I've always been interested in the intersection between our rational and our unconscious lives.

— Kathryn Harrison

From our point of view, the most exciting thing would be if we discovered something really fundamental in our understanding was just off a bit - and that now we have a chance to revisit it.

— Saul Perlmutter

We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.

— J. William Fulbright

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

— Carl Sagan

Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.

— H. R. McMaster

I would say that I was absolutely convinced of the possibility of our making an uranium engine, but I never thought that we would make a bomb; and at the bottom of my heart, I was really glad that it was to be an engine and not a bomb.

— Werner Heisenberg

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