J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful

J. Robert Oppenheimer

In the spring of 1929, I returned to the United States. I was homesick for this country. I had learned in my student days a great deal about the new physics. I wanted to pursue this myself, to explain it, and to foster its cultivation

J. Robert Oppenheimer

I was born in New York in 1904

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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

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

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My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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

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

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I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany

J. Robert Oppenheimer

To recruit staff, I traveled all over the country talking with people who had been working on one or another aspect of the atomic-energy enterprise and people in radar work, for example, and underwater sound, telling them about the job, the place that we are going to, and enlisting their enthusiasm

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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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The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another

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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them

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