In this video, J. Robert Oppenheimer delivers his famous quote from the Bhagavad-Gita. Thanks to Trinity Remembered (http://www.trinityremembered.com/) for providing the Atomic Heritage Foundation with this video.

I remembered 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, 1 way or another.


Speaker 0: We knew the world would not be the same. Few people laughed. Few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered 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, 1 way or another.

Oppenheimer Bhagavad-Gita Quote

We knew the world would not be the same. Few people laughed. Few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered 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, 1 way or another.

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Oppenheimer Bhagavad-Gita Quote