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I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

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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.

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My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

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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.

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

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I need physics more than friends.

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

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

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There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.

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If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.

~J. Robert Oppenheimer

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Physicist

Born: April 22nd, 1904

Died: February 18th, 1967

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