J. Robert Oppenheimer

Quotes

• “This world of ours is a new world in which the unit of knowledge the nature of human communities the order of society...”
• “The experience of seeing how our thought and our words and our ideas have been confined by the limitation of our experie...”
• “In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at leas...”
• “Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes...”
• “The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass ...”
• “It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are fou...”
• “There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.”
• “The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.”
• “Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.”
• “Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.”
• “Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.”
• “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.”