Don't ever tell anybody anything, or you'll never get anything done.
Nuclear reactor, physics
Don't ever tell anybody anything, or you'll never get anything done.
Nuclear reactor, physics
Quoted by J. Robert Oppenheimer about Fermi's approach to the Manhattan Project
1940s
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