J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes

A pragmatist is concerned with results, not reality.

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

My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

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.

Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.

My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.

There are people who are willing to protect freedom until there is nothing left of it.

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.

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.

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.