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....

My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

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.

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....

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