"Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries."

J. Robert Oppenheimer, American Physicist

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"We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity."

Letitia Landon, British Poet

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"You may be surprised to discover you're rich, especially if you're broke."

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"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"We may not know the whole story in our lifetime."

Earl Warren, American Judge

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"I may not be perfect, but I'm trying."

Kristin Davis, American Actress

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"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"But if, on the other hand, we should be justified in rejecting it, if there testified on oath, then, supposing our rules of evidence to be sound, we may be excused if we hesitate elsewhere to give it credence."

Simon Greenleaf, American Judge

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"To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of."

Ronald Fisher, English Mathematician

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"I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing."

Jimmy Page, British Musician

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"We need a place in which we may flourish and be ourselves."

Timothy Radcliffe, English Clergyman

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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."

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"We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity."

"You may be surprised to discover you're rich, especially if you're broke."

"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."

"We may not know the whole story in our lifetime."

"I may not be perfect, but I'm trying."

"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."

"But if, on the other hand, we should be justified in rejecting it, if there testified on oath, then, supposing our rules of evidence to be sound, we may be excused if we hesitate elsewhere to give it credence."

"To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of."

"I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing."

"We need a place in which we may flourish and be ourselves."

Explore more quotes by J. Robert Oppenheimer

"Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries."

"Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it."

"When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb."

""It worked." (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation)."

"Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man."

"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."

"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."

"No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows."

"The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country."

"There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago."