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We Knew The World Would Not Be The Same. A Few People Laughed, A Few People Cried, Most People Were Silent. I Remembered The Line From The Hindu Scripture, The Bhagavad-gita; Vishnu Is Trying To Persuade The Prince That He Should Do His Duty And, To Impress Him, Takes On His Multi-armed Form And Says, "now I Am Become Death, The Destroyer Of Worlds." I Suppose We All Thought That, One Way Or Another.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer
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We Knew The World Would Not Be

J. Robert Oppenheimer
We Knew The World Would Not Be The Same. A Few People Laughed, A Few People Cried, Most People Were Silent. I Remembered The Line From The Hindu Scripture, The Bhagavad-gita; Vishnu Is Trying To Persuade The Prince That He Should Do His Duty And, To Impress Him, Takes On His Multi-armed Form And Says, "now I Am Become Death, The Destroyer Of Worlds." I Suppose We All Thought That, One Way Or Another.
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