More from J. Robert Oppenheimer

  1. The Optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds, the Pessimist fears it is true.
  2. Truth, not a pet, is man's best friend.
  3. The juxtaposition of Western civilization's most terrifying scientific achievement with the most dazzling description of the mystical exper…
  4. The general notions about human understanding: which are illustrated by discoveries in atomic physics are not in the nature of things wholl…
  5. Everyone wants rather to be pleasing to women and that desire is not altogether, though it is very largely, a manifestation of vanity. But …
  6. It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not attempt to prev…
  7. When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and argue about what to do about it only after you've had your tec…
  8. We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the …

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