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1. "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)" ~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
2. "It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them." ~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
3. "To the confusion of our enemies." ~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
4. "When we deny the EVIL within ourselves, we dehumanize ourselves, and we deprive ourselves not only of our own destiny but of any possibility of dealing with the EVIL of others." ~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
5. "In battle, in forest, at the precipice in the mountains,On the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows,In sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame,The good deeds a man has done before defend him." ~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
6. "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." ~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
7. "I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." ~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
8. "Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries." ~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
9. "No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows." ~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
10. "Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man." ~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
11. "Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it." ~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
12. "'It worked.' (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation)." ~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
13. "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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