Sakharov never felt that by creating nuclear weapons he had "known sin," in Oppenheimer's expression.
We do not know what sin, for while in the service of the Prince, Montaigne's behaviour was beyond reproach.
We discover that in order to love she has to know sin and guilt.
After the war, Robert Oppenheimer remarked that the physicists involved in the Manhattan project had "known sin".
And somewhere it struck them that they had really known sin.
Oppenheimer famously said that in building the bomb the physicists had known sin.
Paul answers that it is not, but adds that "I would not have known sin apart from the law" (7:7).
It was as if she were saying that all of the Antosians, having known sin, could never be cleansed again.
But the truffle world also knows pitfalls and sin.
It was so happy to release them so that they'd never know sin like I knew sin.