Our proposition that the physicists on both sides should not advance the production of atomic bombs, was thus indirectly, if one wants to exaggerate the point, a proposition in favor of Hitler.
Quantum mechanics, uncertainty principle
From a letter to Robert Jungk, reflecting on the unintended consequences of their wartime discussions about atomic weapons.
November 17, 1956
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