Everyone wants rather to be pleasing to women and that desire is not altogether, though it is very largely, a manifestation of vanity. But one cannot aim to be pleasing to women any more than one can aim to have taste, or beauty of expression, or happiness; for these things are not specific aims which one may learn to attain; they are descriptions of the adequacy of one's living. To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.
Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.) - J. Robert Oppenheimer
Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Genius sees the answer before the question. - J. Robert Oppenheimer
Genius sees the answer before the question.
No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows. - J. Robert Oppenheimer
No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful. - J. Robert Oppenheimer
Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. - J. Robert Oppenheimer
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
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 questi… - J. Robert Oppenheimer
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 questi…
Truth, not a pet, is man's best friend. - J. Robert Oppenheimer
Truth, not a pet, is man's best friend.
The people of this world must unite or they will perish. - J. Robert Oppenheimer
The people of this world must unite or they will perish.
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 scri… - J. Robert Oppenheimer
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 scri…
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