Popular Quotes by J. Robert Oppenheimer

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• To the confusion of our enemies.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer#Toast 174

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• The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer#Happiness 137

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• I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer#Death 90

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• There are children playing in the street 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#Perception 73

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• 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#Humor 64

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

  J. Robert Oppenheimer#best 59

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• I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.N.B.: This is a paraphrase from the ancient Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer#Technology 55

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• 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#Success 51

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• 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#Atomic 46

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• Now I am become Death the destroyer of worlds.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer#Destruction 36

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