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The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom. ↗

— Willard Libby

#atom #atomic #atomic energy #dependent #energy

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#certain #circumstances #deeds #demand #even

I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#faith #i #know #mountains #moves

Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that's it. It'll get solved and we'll carry on with planning Ground Zero. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#been #carry #fees #get #ground

We all came to see that site. We all walked around it. It is already sacred. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#around #came #sacred #see #site

Well, I didn't want to have the reminder sort of in the sky, so that people would forever look at it. I wanted to have - really to create a city from the bottom up. From that foundation, which held, from the democratic power of what the site really is. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#city #create #democratic #forever #foundation

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#speaking #stupid #understands #who #wisdom

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#age #opinions #our #understanding #weakest

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#believe #delight #demonstrates #having #leads

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#covered #decorum #every #every man #his