"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

posted in war


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.

Other Quotes You Might Like

Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection

"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

knowledgeView 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

More Quotes About war

Explore other inspiring quotes in this category

"All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side."

-George Wald

warView Quote
"War is not civilized."

-Talib Kweli

warView Quote
"The concept of war crimes is an American invention."

-George Wald

warView Quote
"Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war."

-Bianca Jagger

warView Quote
"I think its man's nature to go to war and fight."

-Talib Kweli

warView Quote
"There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating."

-George Wald

warView Quote