Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds.Now I Am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds, WIRED, 2023
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J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) was an American theoretical physicist known as the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in the Manhattan Project during World War II. He made significant contributions to nuclear physics and is remembered for his leadership in the development of the first atomic weapons.
1904–1967·lived 62 years
Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds.Now I Am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds, WIRED, 2023
Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.With Oppenheimer on an Autumn Day, Look, Vol. 30, No. 26, December 19, 1966
No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.Commencement Address, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1947
As long as men are free to ask what they will, free to say what they think, free to think what they must, science will never regress and freedom itself will never be wholly lost.Life, Vol. 7, No. 9, International Edition, October 24, p. 58, 1949
I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.The Bhagavad Gita, 1945
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