"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
WarView Quote
"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
posted in Knowledge
Other Quotes by J. Robert Oppenheimer
Discover more inspiring quotes by 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
SuccessView Quote
"Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it."
-J. Robert Oppenheimer
ScienceView Quote
"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
HumorView Quote
"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
FutureView Quote
"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."
-J. Robert Oppenheimer
DeathView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not."
-Stanley Fish
KnowledgeView Quote
"Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training."
-Harrison Salisbury
KnowledgeView Quote
"Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity."
-Abraham Cowley
KnowledgeView Quote
"My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science."
-George Andrew Olah
KnowledgeView Quote
"Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience."
-Carl Clinton Van Doren
KnowledgeView Quote
"What is research but a blind date with knowledge?"
-Will Harvey
KnowledgeView Quote