Sometimes the answer to fear does not lie in trying to explain away the causes, sometimes the answer lies in courage.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century.

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

Pragmatism is an intellectually safe but ultimately sterile philosophy.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Maybe General Groves was right. Maybe we should just banish thinking forever.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

The best way to send information is to wrap it up in a person.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Genius sees the answer before the question.

J. Robert Oppenheimer