Crude Quote by J. Robert Oppenheimer

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

Despite the vision and farseeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists have felt the peculiarly intimate responsibility for suggesting, for supporting,…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.

— Voltaire

I'm convinced that a controlled disrespect for authority is essential to a scientist. All the good experimental physicists I have known have had an…

— Luis Walter Alvarez

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

— Anonymous

“The only motive in the world that will keep me from sin is the knowledge that God is mine and I am his.”

— Desmond Ford

That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin…

— Annie Besant

“Listen to yourself speak, saying, “The knowledge of God has no practical application.” Do you know why all your Christian bookstores are filled up…

— Paul Washer

A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness

— Caitlin Thomas

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.

— Cyril Connolly

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

— Barbara Stanwyck