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The theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
Age: 62 †
Born: 1904
Born: April 22
Died: 1967
Died: February 18
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Nuclear Physicist
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New York City
New York
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'It worked.' (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation).
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If we must live with a perpetual sense that the world and the men in it are greater than we and too much for us, let it be the measure of our virtue that we know this and seek no comfort.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality.
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Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)
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The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.
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All history teaches us that these questions that we think the pressing ones will be transmuted before they are answered, that they will be replaced by others, and that the very process of discovery will shatter the concepts that we today use to describe our puzzlement.
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You can certainly destroy enough of humanity so that only the greatest act of faith can persuade you that what's left will be human.
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I can't think that it would be terrible of me to say - and it is occasionally true - that I need physics more than friends.
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