Quotes by : J. Robert Oppenheimer

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful....

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....

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.

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

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the....

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of....

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