J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes

A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

~ J. Robert Oppenheimer

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

~ J. Robert Oppenheimer

It did not take atomic weapons to make man want peace, a peace that would last. But the atomic bomb was the turn of the screw. It has 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

We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.

~ J. Robert Oppenheimer

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

~ J. Robert Oppenheimer

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

~ 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