The general notions about human understanding...which are illustrated by discoveries in atomic physics are not in the nature of things wholly unfamiliar, wholly unheard of, or new. Even in our own culture, they have a history, and in Buddhist and Hindu thought a more considerable and central place. What we shall find is an exemplification, an encouragement, and a refinement of old wisdom.
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.
Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful. - J. Robert Oppenheimer
Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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 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.
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…
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.
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.
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