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Robert Oppenheimer
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Robert Oppenheimer

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

- Robert Oppenheimer

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

- Robert Oppenheimer

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“Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.”

- 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.”

- Robert Oppenheimer

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“In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.”

- Robert Oppenheimer

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

- Robert Oppenheimer

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

- 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.”

- Robert Oppenheimer

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“The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.”

- Robert Oppenheimer

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Robert Oppenheimer

“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.”

- Robert Oppenheimer

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“When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.”

- Robert Oppenheimer

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“I can't think that it would be terrible of me to say — and it is occasionally true — that I need physics more than friends.”

- Robert Oppenheimer

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Robert Oppenheimer

“We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.”

- Robert Oppenheimer

Source/Notes: Atomic Weapons and American Policy, Foreign Affairs (July 1953), p. 529.
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Robert Oppenheimer

“The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of men for its furtherance — these are what may make a vast, complex, ever growing, ever changing, ever more specialized and expert technological world, nevertheless a world of human community.”

- Robert Oppenheimer

Source/Notes: Science and the Common Understanding (1953)
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