ALVAREZ: Oppie! Oppie! ROBERT: What? What is it? They've done it. They've done it. Hahn and Strassmann in Germany. They split the uranium nucleus.
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LAWRENCE: Very elegant. Quite clear. - There's just one problem. - Where? Next door. Alvarez did it. - But then look... - (pulsing) these fission pulses, they're massive. I've seen 30 of these in the past ten minutes. Theory will take you only so far. (gasps) During the process... extra neutrons boil off, which could be used to split other uranium atoms. Chain reaction. You're thinkin' what I'm thinkin'. You, me, and every other physicist around the world who's seen the news. I'm... what? What are we all thinking? A bomb, Alvarez. A bomb. I told you, Robert, no more fucking flowers.
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Ideology got Joe killed. For nothing. Spanish Republic isn't nothing. My husband offered both our futures to stop one fascist bullet from embedding itself in a mudbank. That's the definition of nothing. Seems a little reductive. Pragmatic. Now here I am.
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I don't understand what you want from me. I don't want anything from you.
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Well, you say that and then you call. Well, don't answer. I'll always answer.
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Fine. Just no more flowers. (breathing heavily)
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Wherever the hell this is.
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See? Can't be done.
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(indistinct chatter)
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So, you're a biologist. Well, somehow I have graduated to housewife. Can you explain quantum mechanics to me? Seems baffling. Yes, it is. Well, this glass, this drink... - (knocks countertop) - this countertop, uh, our bodies... all of it. It's mostly empty space. Groupings of tiny energy waves bound together. By what? Forces of attraction strong enough to convince us that matter is solid. Stop my body passing through yours.
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(Kitty laughing) KITTY: Oop! This way. This is where I keep the good stuff. Well, I thought this was the Tolmans' house. I live with them while I'm at Caltech. Do you two need anything? ROBERT: We're good, Ruthie.
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I need to make clear that my changing views on Russia did not mean a sharp break from those who held different views. For a year or two, and during a previous marriage, my wife Kitty had been a Communist Party member.
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During the Battle of Britain, I found myself increasingly out of sympathy with the (clears throat) policy of neutrality that Communists advocated. Right after Hitler invaded Russia and we became allies, these Communist sympathies, did they return? No.
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STUDENT 1: Your paper on black holes is in! - STUDENT 2: Oppie! - (applause) Where's Hartland? Get Hartland. Get Hartland. LOMANITZ: September 1st, 1939, the world's gonna remember this day. (Robert chuckles) Oh, Hartland. Our paper, it's in print. SNYDER: You've been upstaged.
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Lost? Well, my previous husband had died, and... at 28, I wasn't really ready to be a widow. - Who was your first husband? - Nobody. But my second husband was Joe Dallet. He was, um, from money, like me, but... he was a union organizer in Youngstown, Ohio. Fell hard. (chuckles) How hard? Hard enough to spend the next four years living off beans and pancakes, handing out the Daily Worker at factory gates. By 36, I just told Joe I couldn't take it anymore. Quit the Party and a year later, I wanted him back, so... Him, not the Daily Worker. And he said, "Swell, I'll meet you on my way to Spain." He went to fight for the Loyalists? And then he went to the brigades and I waited. And...
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I meant with your husband. Yes, you did. 'Cause you know it won't make a bit of difference. (sentimental music playing)
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You know, I'm going to New Mexico. To my ranch, with friends. You should come.