Author: J. Robert Oppenheimer

Quotes

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

- J. Robert Oppenheimer

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

- 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.

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

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

- J. Robert Oppenheimer

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

- J. Robert Oppenheimer

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

- 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.

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

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

- J. Robert Oppenheimer

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