J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes from the Bhagavad Gita
J. Robert Oppenheimer, was the head of the team which invented the first nuclear bomb, under the project named "Manhattan Project". Robert Oppenheimer was a student of Vedanta and Hindu thought. He had educated himself on Sanskrit and is said to have studied Bhagavad Gita in the original.Â
On Gita Robert Oppenheimer said:
"The Bhagavad Gita... is the most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue." ["Sacred Jewels of Yoga: Wisdom from India's Beloved Scriptures, Teachers, Masters, and Monks"]
"The juxtaposition of Western civilization's most terrifying scientific achievement with the most dazzling description of the mystical experience given to us by the Bhagavad Gita, India's greatest literary monument."
In One of the earliest interviews after the First Nuclear Explosion in Japan, J. Robert Oppenheimer quotes from the Bhagavad Gita:
"I have become Time, the destroyer of worlds." Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11 verse 32)