>In 1963, Oppenheimer was asked by The Christian Century magazine what books shaped his “vocational attitude” and his “philosophy on life.”>Here is Oppenheimer’s (unranked) list:>"Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil)" by Charles Baudelaire>“The Waste Land” by T.S. Eliot>“The Divine Comedy” by Dante Alighieri>"Bhagavad-Gita">“Śatakatraya” (“The Three Centuries”) by Bhartrihari>Hamlet by William Shakespeare ">L'Éducation Sentimentale (Sentimental Education)" by Gustave Flaubert>"The Collected Works of Bernhard Riemann" by Bernhard Riemann>"Theaetetus" by Plato>Scientist Michael Faraday’s notebooks (Alternately named "Faraday’s Diary, Being the Various Philosophical Notes of Experimental Investigation made by Michael Faraday")Did J. Robert Oppenheimer have good literary taste?
>>24861501Compare that to the STEMfags today who read self-help garbage, fantasy slop, and techbro nonsense, or would rather play videogames and watch Netflix and Japanese cartoons than read literature. What happened?
>>24861501>Bhagavad-GitaAbsolute garbage. The rest seems alright. Theaetetus in interesting
>I AM become deaththis nigga dyslexic?
>>24862086That's a quote from Harry Potter.
>>24862086I think he's using an archaic form of "am" since he's translating Bhagavad Gita (although I always disliked his translation of that line).
>>24862078Are you the same anon that made a thread whining about the gita a couple days ago? Move on man, Its one of the most ancient and meaningful pillars of world culture but if it's not for you it's not for you
>>24863037If I read it will I end up a rapist who eats cow poop and rice off the sidewalk?
>>24863059Idk, its not for me either i always get super sleepy after a couple dozen pages :)
>>24862086kaalo'smi lokakshayakrit pravriddhoAsmi is as verb in 1st person Singular. That is I am.Kala is time Lokakshayakrit is the doer of the destruction of the world (loka - kshaya - krit)Pravriddha is might strongSo, Time I am, the causer/doer of the destruction of the world mightyOr, not in Jeet logic,Time I am, mighty destroyer of the world.Oppenheimer's translation, even if not absolutely, correct, is still better poetically than the original Jeet banality. A proof where translation is better than the original.
>>24863059>>24863091You know what doesnt get me sleepy? The Bible. It keeps me awake at night actually, I'm terrified of it.
Triggered the jeet
>>24862086>I am become meme
>>24863059Lol
A very eclectic list.I expected a few modern European novels in there.
bump
>>24863096God just whispered to me that you’re gay
pretentious faggot
>>24864411Nice to meet you!
>>24862071>What happened?Back then they had elitism and it was a good thing. If you were a scholar it was expected that you fucking read serious books. There was a condescending attitude towards popular entertainment. Today it would be a social suicide to be elitist, in any milieu, rather you have to nearly apologize for refined taste and for not knowing your video game lore and netflix series lore.Then again old-fashioned stuffiness is ridiculous for good reason. We can't really go back, either a culture like that exists organically or it's dead.To add, I think Feynman is partly responsible for making a dismissive attitude towards the humanities fashionable among his fellow physicists. Certainly if you look at pre-WW2 physicists they were all widely interested and well-read. Now if you're a genius you can afford to be as dismissive as you want about any field, but midwits of course took it to mean that they'll be as smart as Feynman by aping his attitudes
>>24861501Pretty standard, in a good way, yeah.
>>24861501>Did J. Robert Oppenheimer have good literary taste?No, it's retarded. All of these are right picks. A larper I can see because that's what I am
>>24864774You nailed it, I agree with everything.
>>24864774STEM fags rarely have anything of value to say on humanities they should stick to their areas of expertise
>>24862071Jews in stem still read like this.
>>24866778>STEM fags rarely have anything of value to say on humanitiesThat’s the thing about ALL the academia fags who think they know ALL and HAVE to have an opinion about stuff they don’t understand but they merely THINK they understand.
>>24866778Same applies to you.
