It is something that gives people an illusion of illimitable power, and it is, in some ways, responsible for all our troubles — this, what you might call technical arrogance, that overcomes people when they see what they can do with their minds.

— Freeman Dyson, The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb (1981)

As quoted in the 1981 documentary The Day After Trinity.

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