I'm looking forward to reading this, Oppenheimer was a very rare breed of intellectual.<p>He learned Sanskrit in order to read Eastern religious texts in their original forms. When he famously quoted the Bhagavad Gita[0] that's thought to be <i>his own translation of it</i> which astounds me.<p>[0] - <a href="http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2014/05/23/oppenheimer-gita/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2014/05/23/oppenheimer-gita/</a>