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"In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, th..." — J. Robert Oppenheimer
In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
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