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.

J. Robert Oppenheimer
In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no...
In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no...
In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no...
In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no...
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The statement above is by the famous physicist Richard Feynman, who was known for his witty and often profound comments. Feynman was one of the greatest physicists of all time, but he once said that he didn't like physics as much as he used to because it had gotten too complicated. He then went on to say that though he still liked physics, he now hated it.

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