We wouldn't have had the moral courage to recommend to the government in the spring of 1942 that they should employ 120,000 men just for building the thing up.
Quantum mechanics, uncertainty principle
Reflecting on Germany's nuclear program, suggesting a lack of moral conviction or practical will to commit vast resources to building an atomic bomb.
August 1945 (Farm Hall transcripts)
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