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If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for, but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.

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Stars have a life cycle much like animals. They get born, they grow, they go through a definite internal development, and finally they die, to give back the material of which they are made so that new stars may live

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Scientific theories are not overthrown; they are expanded, refined, and generalized.

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You should look at all the experimental information at hand, not only the most relevant, and be prepared to make conjectures if that helps.

Hans Bethe

2.7 x 1014 grams per cubic centimeter. This is the density of matter inside a large atomic nucleus, and in effect the nucleons in the core [of a star] merge to form a single gigantic nucleus. A teaspoonful of such matter has about the same mass as all the buildings in Manhattan combined.

Hans Bethe

Hans Bethe

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Born: July 2, 1906

Died: March 6, 2005 (aged 98)

Bio: Hans Albrecht Bethe was a German and American nuclear physicist who, in addition to making important contributions to astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics and solid-state physics, won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis.

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