Best J. Robert Oppenheimer Sayings
- Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.) Become Death
- We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line… All
- There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free… Any
- "It worked." (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation according to brother, Frank) According
- The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it. All