All J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes
- I can't think that it would be terrible of me to say — and it is occasionally true — that I need physics more than… Friends
- The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change; the greatest novelty the extent of novelty. Acuity
- Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search. Answering
- All history teaches us that these questions that we think the pressing ones will be transmuted before they are answered, that they will be replaced… All
- It is proper to the role of the scientist that he not merely find new truth and communicate it to his fellows, but that he… Account
- If we must live with a perpetual sense that the world and the men in it are greater than we and too much for us,… Comfort
- Science starts with preconception, with the common culture, and with common sense. It moves on to observation, is marked by the discovery of paradox, and… Along
- This is a world in which each of us, knowing his limitations, knowing the evils of superficiality and the terrors of fatigue, will have to… Cling
- This world of ours is a new world, in which the unit of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of society, the order… Been
- I need physics more than friends. Friends
- Genius sees the answer before the question. Answer
- The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. All
- I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. Become Death
- There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that… Ago
- Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man. Any
- No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows. College
- Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries. Access
- When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after… Ahead
- 'It worked.' (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation). Atomic
- Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Action
- The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond… Atomic
- In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a… Cannot Lose
- In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days. Been
- To the confusion of our enemies. Confusion
- It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it… Deep