Showing posts with label Robert Oppenheimer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robert Oppenheimer. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks.

Friday, January 30, 2026

Robert Oppenheimer and the Bhagavad Gita

Many know that Robert Oppenheimer famously said. "Now I have become Death, the destroyer of worlds," after the first atomic bomb explosion. But his favorite passage from the Bhagavad Gita was reportedly:

In battle, in forest, at the precipice in the mountains
On the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows...
In sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame,
The good deeds a man has done before defends him

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!

Sunday, March 02, 2025

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!

Monday, February 19, 2024

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!

Saturday, February 03, 2024

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!

Sunday, October 08, 2023

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"Life is a journey that's measured not in miles or years but in experience, and the route your life takes is built not of roads but of songs" - Jimmy Buffett 

"Thank you Secretary Bootyjuice." - Joe Biden

"If you trust the government you obviously failed history class." - Don Freeman

"There is no place for dogma in science." - Robert Oppenheimer

Sunday, March 19, 2023

Quotes for Today

 Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." - Soren Kierkegaard

"Silence is a lesson learned through life's many sufferings." - Seneca

"How quickly you unlearn what you think you know often determines how far you go. A lot of adults think they know the answer so when the world tells them they're wrong, they dismiss it. And that is the moment they stop getting better." - Shane Parrish

"But because I believe that the reward for discipline is greater than its immediate objective, I would not have you think that discipline without objective is possible: in its nature discipline involved the subjection of the soul to some perhaps minor end, and that end must be real." Robert Oppenheimer

Monday, February 27, 2023

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"Knowledge has consequences, not always intended, not always comfortable, not always welcome." - Richard Rhodes

"It is a profound and necessary truth that deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them." - Robert Oppenheimer 

"The more serious you take yourself, the unhappier you're going to be." - Naval Ravikant

"Love your country, but never trust its government." - Robert Heinlein