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Re: Oppenheimer quote



"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.

53.6 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.R. Oppenheimer, Lecture at
M.I.T., 25 Nov (1947).


----- Original Message -----
From: "SSHS KPHOX" <kphox@MAIL.CCSD.K12.CO.US>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 3:51 PM
Subject: Oppenheimer quote


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