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"It worked." (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation).
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Author Profession: Physicist
Nationality: American
Born: April 22, 1904
Died: February 18, 1967

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I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

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.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

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

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

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

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.
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After, Atomic, First, Said, Witnessing, Worked
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After, Atomic, First, Said, Witnessing, Worked
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