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
In a free world, if it is to remain free, we must maintain, with our lives if need be, but surely by… — 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
The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that… — 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
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
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
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
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
This world of ours is a new world, in which the unit of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of… — 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
Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita…"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all… — 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
Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.) — 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 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
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
