J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes

The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

• Century
• Privilege
• Vedas

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• The navigation of our inland waters has for years been sought in vain by foreign countries, and if we grant the privilege to Russia, other States will be guided in their demands by her example.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Example
  • Privilege
  • Russia

• I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • House
  • Fall
  • See

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

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • May
  • Greatest
  • Privilege

• I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • You
  • Government
  • Privilege

• None of us is designed for the role we must assume in a revolutionary society, although Cubans had the privilege of Jose Marti's example.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Society
  • Example
  • Privilege

• For me, being part of the WTA tour is a privilege. Every day I wake up, it's a privilege to be able to go outside and do what I love. It's a privilege to be able to make my own hours, even though they're long, but I make them.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Love
  • Being
  • Privilege

• I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to see me. It's a privilege for me to see them.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Love
  • Audience
  • Privilege

• I am afraid of privilege, of ease, of entitlement.

  

  Tan Le
  • Afraid
  • Privilege
  • Ease

• Privilege is here, and with privilege goes responsibility.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Responsibility
  • Here
  • Privilege

• If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Children
  • Book
  • Study

• A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the worship of mere antiquity.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Men
  • Worship
  • Century

• I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four legs so that they don't rock back and forth.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • Technology
  • Rock
  • Balance

• It was a little skirmish across a century.

  

  Margery Allingham
  • Century
  • Skirmish

• Representing Australia has always been a honour and a privilege, and the older and more experienced I get, the more I enjoy it.

  

  Cadel Evans
  • Sports
  • Privilege
  • Australia

• Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Law
  • Century
  • Jungle

• In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Firsts
  • Bird
  • Century

• The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.

  

  Bruce Sterling
  • Century
  • Ruins
  • Frontiers

• The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Philosophy
  • Sense
  • Common

• Nineteenth century American educator Catharine Beecher is really associated with the idea that a mother works with children in the home and a teacher works with children at school, and that therefore women are almost biologically predisposed to do this job.

  

  Dana Goldstein
  • Children
  • School
  • Home

• In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.

  

  Juan Goytisolo
  • Opinion
  • Drama
  • Criticism

• When I was younger I felt very disempowered, very disappeared. I felt worthless, like I had no right to exist. I think a good part of my life was spent recovering from that. Pulling myself out of that.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Life
  • Exist
  • Disappeared

• To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening.

  

  Etta James
  • Listening
  • Commercial
  • Country Music

• If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Time
  • Fighting
  • Doing

• The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Century
  • Privilege
  • Vedas