The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. -J. Robert Oppenheimer Best
My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art. -J. Robert Oppenheimer Teacher
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
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 Marriage
My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art. -J. Robert Oppenheimer Marriage
Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. -J. Robert Oppenheimer Science
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 Knowledge
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 Future
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
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 Men
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
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 Science
