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Oppenheimer quoted the Baghavad Ghita in his first statement after the Trinity test. Scientists are humans too.
by ramesh31 5y ago
Oppenheimer quoted the Baghavad Ghita in his first statement after the Trinity test. Scientists are humans too.
- cscurmudgeon 5y agoFunnily, that is probably the only religious text that is not religious.
- cscurmudgeon 5y agoThe local knee jerk reactionary downvoting is hilarious and expected given the faux intellectualism that is now rampant here. Since I can't edit my original comment, here you go. There is a ton of wisdom in the Gita. https://michaeldevfay.medium.com/the-bhagavad-gita-for-atheists-462b0303be75 https://michaeldevfay.medium.com/the-bhagavad-gita-for-athei...
- HideousKojima 5y agoI've read the Bhagavad Gita and it spends a significant amount of time talking about karma and reincarnation. Not sure how you could see it as non-religious unless you did to it what Thomas Jefferson did to the Bible.
- cscurmudgeon 5y agoThere is a lot of non religious content in there. https://michaeldevfay.medium.com/the-bhagavad-gita-for-atheists-462b0303be75 https://michaeldevfay.medium.com/the-bhagavad-gita-for-athei... The point of Gita's message is to NOT worry about karma and reincarnation.
- HideousKojima 5y agoAnd there's plenty of non-religious content in the Bible, but no one in their right mind would call it a non-religious text.
- avar 5y agoThat famous Oppenheimer quote is from 1965, not 1945. After the Trinity test he went on to work for the US government for some years on nuclear weapons, which goes against the usual "what have we done?" sentiment that quote is meant to convey.
- TedShiller 5y agoIt would be hard to be a scientist without being human