In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

Quote by J Robert Oppenheimer

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When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and...

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and...

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite...

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite...

There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma...

There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma...

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems...

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems...

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up...

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up...

In a free world, if it is to remain free, we must maintain, with our...

In a free world, if it is to remain free, we must maintain, with our...

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge...

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge...

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it...

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it...

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

It worked. (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation).

It worked. (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation).

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous...

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous...

The most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue.

The most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up...

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up...

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous...

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous...

Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating...

Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating...

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the...

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the...

There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the...

There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the...

A heart needs only its own voice to do what is right.

A heart needs only its own voice to do what is right.