Thursday, July 30, 2015

J. Robert Oppenheimer and Carl Sagan on War


"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do." ~ Voltaire

"We knew the world would not be the same.  A few people laughed,

a few people cried.  Most people were silent.  I remember 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, after a nuclear test at Los Alamos.


"Nuclear warfare is like two men standing in a pool of gasoline,

one with five matches, the other with two."  ~Carl Sagan

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