Quotes by : J. Robert Oppenheimer

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to....

My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.

The experience of seeing how our thought and our words and our ideas have been confined by the limitation....

This world of ours is a new world in which the unit of knowledge the nature of human communities the....

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to....

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made....

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first....