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J. Robert Oppenheimer

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Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.


— J. Robert Oppenheimer


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Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)


— J. Robert Oppenheimer


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


— J. Robert Oppenheimer


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


— J. Robert Oppenheimer


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


— J. Robert Oppenheimer


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There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.


— J. Robert Oppenheimer


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I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.


— J. Robert Oppenheimer


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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.


— J. Robert Oppenheimer


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The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.


— J. Robert Oppenheimer


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


— J. Robert Oppenheimer


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He was ultimately accepted by J. At his 1954 security clearance hearings he denied being a member of the Communist Party but identified himself as a fellow traveler which he defined as someone who agrees with many of the goals of Communism but without being willing to blindly follow orders from any Communist party apparatus. Birge wanted him so badly that he expressed a willingness to share him with Caltech.

Johnson presented) him with the Enrico Fermi Award as a gesture of political rehabilitation. Julius Robert Oppenheimer (April 22 1904 – February 18 1967) was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California Berkeley. The first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16 1945 in the Trinity test in New Mexico; Oppenheimer remarked later that it brought to mind words from the Bhagavad Gita: "Now I am become Death the destroyer of worlds.

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