It is proper to the role of the scientist that he not merely find new truth and communicate it to his fellows,… — 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… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
[About the great synthesis of atomic physics in the 1920s:] It was a heroic time. It was not the doing of any… — 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
It is not possible to be a scientist unless you believe that it is good to learn... that it is of the… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
But when you come right down to it, the reason that we did this job is because it was an organic necessity.… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
But when you come right down to it the reason that we did this job is because it was an organic necessity.… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Both, as… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is… — 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
Taken as a story of human achievement, and human blindness, the discoveries in the sciences are among the great epics. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of men for its furtherance-these are what may make… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
The theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Science starts with preconception, with the common culture, and with common sense. It moves on to observation, is marked by the discovery… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change; the greatest novelty the extent of novelty. — 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
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