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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

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In Some Sort Of Crude Sense, Which

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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.

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