Julius Robert Oppenheimer  (Referred to as "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in the Manhattan Project) describing the impact of witnessing a nuclear detonation:
"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.""