J. Robert Oppenheimer - "father of the atomic bomb"

[CherryGaru]

New Christopher Nolan's movie is based of this guy. Looks this guy knew more about Bhagavad Gita shlokas than we do. These were the statements by him, after witnessing the first atomic bomb testing !! 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer later recalled that, while witnessing the explosion, he thought of a verse from the Bhagavad Gita (XI,12)

Bhagavad Gita (XI,12): divi sūrya-sahasrasya bhaved yugapad utthitā yadi bhāḥ sadṛṥī sā syād bhāsas tasya mahātmanaḥ^[112] If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one ...^[5][113]

Years later he would explain that another verse had also entered his head at that time: namely, the famous verse: "kālo'smi lokakṣayakṛtpravṛddho lokānsamāhartumiha pravṛttaḥ" (XI,32),^[114] which he translated as "I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."^{[note 2]}

 

In 1965, he was persuaded to quote again for a television broadcast:

We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.^[3]