More From 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."
- "Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it."
- "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true."
More In Death
- "Death is the tyrant of the imagination."― Barry Cornwall
- "It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge."― Charles de Gaulle
- "But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel."― Theodore Bikel