Date of birth: 1904-04-22
Date of death: 1967-02-18
Quotes number: 12
Nationality: American
Profession: Physicist
Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
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.
In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
"It worked." (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation).
No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
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.
