In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

Quote by J Robert Oppenheimer

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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.

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...

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...

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 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...

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

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...

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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...

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...

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.

Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art...

Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art...

Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the...

Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the...