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“I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.”
Julius Robert Oppenheimer
“The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.”
Julius Robert Oppenheimer
“Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.”
Julius 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.”
Julius 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.”
Julius Robert Oppenheimer
“No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.”
Julius 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.”
Julius 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.”
Julius Robert Oppenheimer
“Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.”
Julius Robert Oppenheimer
“In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.”
Julius Robert Oppenheimer
“Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.”
Julius Robert Oppenheimer
“A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.”
Ovid
“If you want to be loved, be lovable.”
Ovid
“Fortune and love favor the brave.”
Ovid
“Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.”
Ovid
“Beauty is a fragile gift.”
Ovid
“Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.”
Ovid
“A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.”
Ovid
“A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.”
Ovid
“Daring is not safe against daring men.”
Ovid
“Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.”
Ovid
“No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.”
Ovid
“First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.”
Ovid
“Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.”
Ovid
“Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.”
Ovid
“Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.”
Ovid
“All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.”
Ovid
“Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.”
Ovid
“Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.”
Ovid
“The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.”
Ovid
