Re: Oppenheimer quote

[Hugh Haskell <hhaskell@MINDSPRING.COM>]

A quick Google search on the quoted phrase turned up this:

"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."

                      --J. Robert Oppenheimer, Scientific Director of
Los Alamos Laboratory,
             where the first atom bombs were designed and built. In:
"Physics in the Contemporary World,"
                         Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. IV,
No. 3, March 1948, p.66.

This is probably a reprint of the original lecture given at MIT on 25
Nov. 1947.

Hugh

> I am forwarding this in hopes of help,
>
> Thanks
>
> Ken Fox
>
> Dear Sir,
>
> I am looking for a speech by Robert Oppenheimer from 1947. The speech
> includes his famous expression "phycisists have known sin."
>
> I hope someone out there could be of assistance.
>
> Yours sincerely
>
> Bengt Mahrs
> bmahrs@chello.se

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