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J Robert Oppenheimer
There are children...
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes...
The true scientist...
The true scientist never loses the faculty of amusement. It is the essence of his being.
When you see...
When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only...
A man whose...
A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
Source: Of Albert...
The atomic bomb...
The atomic bomb ... made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain...
Both the man...
Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by...
In some sort...
In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have...
When you see...
When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only...
This is a...
This is a world in which each of us, knowing his limitations, knowing the evils of superficiality and the terrors of...
I am become...
I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds.
Source: quoting a line from the...
As long as...
As long as men are free to ask what they must -- free to say what they think -- free to think what they will --...
The open society,...
The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of men for its...
We knew the...
We knew the world would not be the same.
Source: After the first atomic test. The...
Any man whose...
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
Source: speaking of...
In the material...
In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic...