No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
This is a world in which each of us, knowing his limitations, knowing the evils of superficiality and the terrors of fatigue,… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
If we must live with a perpetual sense that the world and the men in it are greater than we and too… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Today, it is not only that our kings do not know mathematics, but our philosophers do not know mathematics and - to… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
I think that all things which evoke discipline: study, and our duties to men and to the commonwealth, war, and personal hardship,… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
It is proper to the role of the scientist that he not merely find new truth and communicate it to his fellows, but that… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
This world of ours is a new world, in which the unit of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of society, the… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
You can certainly destroy enough of humanity so that only the greatest act of faith can persuade you that what's left will be human. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
