Aphorisms Galore!

Robert J. Oppenheimer

b. 1904; d. 1967

Aphorisms Attributed to This Aphorist

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

Robert J. Oppenheimer, (on Albert Einstein), in Wisdom and Ignorance

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I am become death, shatterer of worlds.

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