J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes

This is a world in which each of us, knowing his limitations, knowing the evils of superficiality and the terrors of fatigue, will have to cling to what is close to him, to what he knows, to what he can do. . .

- J. Robert Oppenheimer

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