American - Physicist | April 22, 1904 - February 18, 1967
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
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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.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
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I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
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If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.
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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
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I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.
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The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.
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There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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