Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
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I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.N.B.: This is a paraphrase from the ancient Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any asssertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.
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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
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Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.
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The most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue.
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The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.
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It worked. (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation according to brother, Frank)
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Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)
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We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.
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Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
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No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
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When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.
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