The physicists have known sin, and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
Robert Oppenheimer
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- American Physical Society reproduces Oppenheimer speech clause; source is excerpt from Physics in the Contemporary World, 1947.
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