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If physics is too difficult for the physicists, the nonphysicist may wonder whether he should try at all to grasp its complexities and ambiguities. It is undeniably an effort, but probably one worth making, for the basic questions are important and the new experimental results are often fascinating. And if the layman runs into serious perplexities, he can be consoled with the thought that the points which baffle him are more than likely the ones for which the professionals have not found satisfactory answers.

Edward Condon

In short, the greatest contribution to real security that science can make is through the extension of the scientific method to the social sciences and a solution of the problem of complete avoidance of war.

Edward Condon

The sciences, like those other truth-seeking activities of man, require a free environment, an environment, above all, free from fear, petty arbitrariness, and tyranny.

Edward Condon

Society is at this moment at the threshold of an undreamed of mastery of our material environment, for science, which provides that mastery, is in its Golden Age.

Edward Condon

"All is fair in love and war" and, I might add, in theoretical physics.

Edward Condon

Edward Condon

Edward Condon

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Born: March 2, 1902

Died: March 26, 1974 (aged 72)

Bio: Edward Uhler Condon was a distinguished American nuclear physicist, a pioneer in quantum mechanics, and a participant in the development of radar and nuclear weapons during World War II as part of the Manhattan Project.

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