scientist, exactly moment discovery—that unstable existential moment—t — Richard Rhodes, Making Atomic Bomb

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For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discovery—that most unstable existential moment—the external world, nature itself, deeply confirms his innermost fantastic convictions. Anchored abruptly in the world, Leviathan gasping on his hook, he is saved from extreme mental disorder by the most profound affirmation of the real.

Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb

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