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J. Robert Oppenheimer
American
Physicist
About the author
"It worked." (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation).
J. Robert Oppenheimer,
American
Physicist
#First
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,
American
Physicist
#Success
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,
American
Physicist
#Problems
#Children
#Perception
#Physics
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,
American
Physicist
#War
#Country
#Future
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,
American
Physicist
#Sense
#Knowledge
#Humor
#Sin
#Vulgarity
I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
J. Robert Oppenheimer,
American
Physicist
#Death
No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
J. Robert Oppenheimer,
American
Physicist
#Man
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
J. Robert Oppenheimer,
American
Physicist
#Years
#Man
#Errors
Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.
J. Robert Oppenheimer,
American
Physicist
#May
#Privilege
In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
J. Robert Oppenheimer,
American
Physicist
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
J. Robert Oppenheimer,
American
Physicist
Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
J. Robert Oppenheimer,
American
Physicist
#Action
#Science
#Man
#Mystery