"What books did most to shape your vocational attitude and your philosophy of life?"

response of Robert Oppenheimer in 1963 to the question by a reporter from The Christian Century:

Les Fleurs de Mal, Charles Baudelaire
The Bhagavad Gita
Collected Works, by Bernhard Riemann
Theaetetus, by Plato
L'education sentimentale, by Gustave Flaubert
The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri
The Three Centuries,, by Bhartrihari
The Waste Land, by T. S. Eliot
The notebooks of Michael Faraday
Hamlet, by William Shakespeare

from Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, Richard Rhodes, 1995. p 578.