Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.
From J. Robert Oppenheimer
My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.
In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.
I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
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.
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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