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“My philosophy
like colour TV
is all there
in black and white”
Monty Python

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Only two quotes by J. Robert Oppenheimer

J. Robert Oppenheimer (New York City; April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967; Princeton, New Jersey) was an American theoretical physicist who was professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. Oppenheimer was the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory and is among those who are credited with being the “father of the atomic bomb” for their role in the Manhattan Project – the World War II undertaking that developed the first nuclear weapons.
 It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. 
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 Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. 
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