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The most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
The best way to send information is to wrap it up in a person.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
Sometimes the answer to fear does not lie in trying to explain away the causes, sometimes the answer lies in courage.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
Truth, not a pet, is man's best friend.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
To the confusion of our enemies.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
Pragmatism is an intellectually safe but ultimately sterile philosophy.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
I was born in New York in 1904.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
I can't think that it would be terrible of me to say - and it is occasionally true - that I need physics more than friends.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
A pragmatist is concerned with results, not reality.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
I need physics more than friends.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
You can certainly destroy enough of humanity so that only the greatest act of faith can persuade you that what's left will be human.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
The theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
Maybe General Groves was right. Maybe we should just banish thinking forever.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
I am literally become death, destroyer of actual worlds.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
We know too much for one man to know too much.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change; the greatest novelty the extent of novelty.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
Taken as a story of human achievement, and human blindness, the discoveries in the sciences are among the great epics.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
Genius sees the answer before the question.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
Things which stimulate my curiosity are pretty far removed from the practical and therefore from classification.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
SumeBAccess to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
'It worked.' (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation).
— J. Robert Oppenheimer