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On the prospect of working on a "Uranium-Engine"

> Every layman can see that these ideas are exceedingly important. Hence there won't be any money in it. You only make money on ideas which have escaped the general public. If you invent something like artificial rubies for the watch-making industry, you'll make more money than with the Uranium-Engine

After hearing news of the bomb

> That shows at any rate that the Americans are capable of real cooperation on a tremendous scale. That would have been impossible in Germany. Each one said that the other was unimportant.



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