I am breaking myself down unto my own foundation, and I shall build myself back up again. I will die this night, and be reborn again with the dawn. I am the Pheonix. I am the Ashes.
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"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."
-Interview, the NBC White Paper
"It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible
chance that it might not is that we do not attempt to prevent it from doing so."
-Attributed
"It worked."
-Exclamation at the first usage of the Atomic bomb.
--J. Robert Oppenheimer
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"I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
-Letter to Harry S. Truman
"Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the Old One. I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice."
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
"I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgment in all human affairs."
-Statement upon joining the Montreal Pipe Smokers Club.
"When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity."
--Albert Einstein
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"Well I'm standing next to a mountain.. Chop it down with the edge of my hand."
--Jimi Hendrix
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