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Outside the hospital the war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.

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Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.

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Open your eyes, Clevinger. It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.

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What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for.

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Oh, I'm not complaining. I know there's a war on. I know a lot of people are going to have to suffer for us to win it. But why must I be one of them?

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Fortunately, just when things were blackest, the war broke out.

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But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

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Born: May 1, 1923
Died: December 12, 1999 (aged 76)
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