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Robert J. Oppenheimer

b. 1904; d. 1967  ·  2 aphorisms  ·  no comments

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Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (15 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

[aphorist] Robert J. Oppenheimer, (on Albert Einstein), in [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (66 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997  · 

I am become death, shatterer of worlds.

[aphorist] Robert J. Oppenheimer, (quoting the Bhagavadgita after witnessing the first nuclear explosion), in [category] War and Peace

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