Leó Szilárd Quotes

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I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the...

democracy
equality
fairness
genius
idiots

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We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and wen...

world
night
sorrow

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Born: 1898-02-11

Died: 1964-05-30

Leó Szilárd (11 February 1898 – 30 May 1964) was a Hungarian-American physicist, and probably the first scientist to take seriously the idea of actually developing atomic bombs; he drafted the famous letter sent by Albert Einstein to U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt that was largely responsible for initiating the Manhattan Project to develop nuclear weapons during World War II.More

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