Quotes by : J. Robert Oppenheimer

Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.

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

In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her.....

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

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.

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

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

We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent.....

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