In the spring of 1929, I returned to the United States. I was homesick for this country. I had learned in my student days a great deal about the new physics. I wanted to pursue this myself, to explain it, and to foster its cultivation. J. Robert Oppenheimer countrycultivationday share on social
No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows. J. Robert Oppenheimer escapeknowman Change image and share on social
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 aheadargueatomic share on social
In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days. J. Robert Oppenheimer continuedayheroic Change image and share on social
I need physics more than friends. J. Robert Oppenheimer friendphysic Change image and share on social
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 crudeextinguishhumor Change image and share on social
Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries. J. Robert Oppenheimer accesscenturyclaim Change image and share on social
The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish. J. Robert Oppenheimer peopleperishunite Change image and share on social
My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things. J. Robert Oppenheimer bitterchildcruel Change image and share on social
In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged. J. Robert Oppenheimer autumnbeginclose Change image and share on social
