More from J. Robert Oppenheimer

  1. It worked.
  2. It is with appreciation and gratefulness that I accept from you this scroll for the Los Alamos Laboratory, and for the men and women whose …
  3. Despite the vision and farseeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists have felt the peculiarly intimate responsibility for …
  4. There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry ... There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask …
  5. The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of men for its furtherance - these are wh…
  6. It's not that I don't feel bad about it. It's just that I don't feel worse today than what I felt yesterday.
  7. 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 …
  8. 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…

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