“ Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.) J. Robert Oppenheimer
“ The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. 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 persu… 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
“ In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged. 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. 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 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
“ My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art. 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
“ 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
“ My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things. 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… J. Robert Oppenheimer
“ This world of ours is a new world in which the unit of knowledge the nature of human communities the order of society the order of ideas the very notions of society and culture have changed and… J. Robert Oppenheimer
“ The experience of seeing how our thought and our words and our ideas have been confined by the limitation of our experience is one which is salutary and is in a certain sense good for a man's morals a… J. Robert Oppenheimer
