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As a theorist who understood what the experimentalists were doing in the laboratory, he had that rare quality of being able to synthesize a great mass of information from disparate fields of research.
“Modern Prometheans have raided Mount Olympus again and have brought back for man the very thunderbolts of Zeus.”
― American Prometheus
― American Prometheus
“In my experience, Marines are gung ho no matter what. They will all fight to the death. Everyone of them just wants to get out there and kill. They are bad-ass, hard-charging mothers.”
― American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
― American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
“Perhaps narcissism is best defined as a need to look on other people as mirrored surfaces who satisfy us only when they reflect back a loving or admiring image of ourselves. When we look into another’s eyes”
― Mythos: The Greek Myths Reimagined
― Mythos: The Greek Myths Reimagined
“Why, Oppenheimer knows about everything. He can talk to you about anything you bring up. Well, not exactly. I guess there are a few things he doesn’t know about. He doesn’t know anything about sports.”
― American Prometheus
― American Prometheus
“The one website I would most heartily recommend is theoi.com—a simply magnificent resource entirely dedicated to Greek myth.”
― Mythos: The Greek Myths Reimagined
― Mythos: The Greek Myths Reimagined
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