Top 30 Quotes by J. Robert Oppenheimer

About J. Robert Oppenheimer

These are some quotes by American author J. Robert Oppenheimer Physicist, who lived between April 22, 1904 and February 18, 1967.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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

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

J. Robert Oppenheimer

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.

My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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

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

J. Robert Oppenheimer

To recruit staff, I traveled all over the country talking with people who had been working on one or another aspect of the atomic-energy enterprise and people in radar work, for example, and underwater sound, telling them about the job, the place that we are going to, and enlisting their enthusiasm.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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