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J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes

J. Robert Oppenheimer quotes

American Physicist April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967

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In battle, in forest, at the precipice in the mountains, On the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows, In sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame, The good deeds a man has done before defend him. J. Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer quote: "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds...."
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. J. Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer quote: "The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible..."
The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it. J. Robert Oppenheimer
When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb. J. Robert Oppenheimer
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 from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another. J. Robert Oppenheimer
It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them. J. Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer quote: "I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."
I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. J. Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer quote: "Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. J. Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer quote: "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the..."
Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.) J. Robert Oppenheimer
The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country. J. Robert Oppenheimer
There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago. J. Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer quote: ""It worked." (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation)."
"It worked." (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation). J. Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer quote: "To the confusion of our enemies."
To the confusion of our enemies. J. Robert Oppenheimer
In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose. J. Robert Oppenheimer
When we deny the EVIL within ourselves, we dehumanize ourselves, and we deprive ourselves not only of our own destiny but of any possibility of dealing with the EVIL of others. J. Robert Oppenheimer

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