J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes

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

Best, True, Possible

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

Death, Become, Worlds

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

Quite, Whose, Ten

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, After, Sweet

'It worked.' (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation).
J. Robert Oppenheimer

After, Said, Worked

There are children playing in the streets 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

Children, Long, Lost

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

Knowing, Knows, Escape

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

War, Future, Different

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

Greatest, May, Century

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

Science, Live, Action

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, Knowledge, Cannot

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

Days, Material, Continue

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Physicist

Born: April 22, 1904

Died: February 18, 1967

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