| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 42989 |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967), U.S. physicist. Lecture, November 25, 1947, delivered at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Physics in the Contemporary World,” no. 50, Technology Review (1948).
The remark became notorious when it was quoted in Time (February 23, 1948 and November 8, 1948). |
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