Isidor Rabi
You drop a bomb, it falls on the just and unjust. I don't wish for the culmination for three centuries of physics to be a weapon of mass destruction.
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[to Oppenheimer]
You're the great improviser, but this you can't do in your head.
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Isidor Rabi
[to Oppenheimer]
When you speak, they hear a prophet. When Strauss speaks, they hear themselves...a prophet can’t be wrong. Not once.
Isidor Rabi
[to Oppenheimer]
Take off that ridiculous uniform. You’re a scientist.
Isidor Rabi
An H-bomb would be one thousand times the power of an A-bomb.
The only intended target would be the largest cities.
It’s a weapon of mass genocide.
Isidor Rabi
You drown in ten feet of water or ten thousand, what’s the difference? We can already drown Russia, and they know it.
Isidor Rabi
Why go through all this against a man who’s accomplished what Dr. Oppenheimer has? Look at his record; we have an A-bomb and a whole series of it, and we have a whole series of Super bombs. What more do you want? Mermaids?
