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J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes
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Type: Physicist Quotes Category: American Physicist Quotes Date of Birth: April 22, 1904 Date of Death: February 18, 1967 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: J. Robert Oppenheimer Related Authors: Murray Gell-Mann Eric Allin Cornell Robert B. Laughlin Martin Lewis Perl Austin O'Malley Frederick Reines James Cronin Richard P. Feynman |
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J. Robert Oppenheimer Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man. J. Robert Oppenheimer Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. J. Robert Oppenheimer I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. J. Robert Oppenheimer 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 In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days. J. Robert Oppenheimer "It worked." (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation). J. Robert Oppenheimer No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows. J. Robert Oppenheimer 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 The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. J. Robert Oppenheimer 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 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 |
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