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

Quote by J Robert Oppenheimer

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The most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue.

The most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue.

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...

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.

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...

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...

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 optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist...

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to...

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to...

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt...

I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt...

However evil men may be they dare not be openly hostile to virtue, and so...

However evil men may be they dare not be openly hostile to virtue, and so...