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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful, they are found because it was possible to find them.

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J. Robert Oppenheimer Inspirational Motivational Necessary Possibility Profound Science Truth

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

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J. Robert Oppenheimer Bhagavad Gita Death Destruction Nuclear Weapons

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.

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J. Robert Oppenheimer Evil Ignorance Knowledge

We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.

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J. Robert Oppenheimer Manhatttan Project Nuclear Bomb Science Wwii

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)

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J. Robert Oppenheimer Apocalypse Science Wars

The experience of seeing how our thought and our words and our ideas have been confined by the limitation of our experience is one which is salutary and is in a certain sense good for a man's morals as well as good for his pleasure. It seems to us [scientists] that this is an opening up of the human spirit , avoiding its provincialism and narrowness.

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J. Robert Oppenheimer Globalization Open Mindedness Science

There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.

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J. Robert Oppenheimer Mankind Nature Secrets

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

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J. Robert Oppenheimer Failures Mistakes

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

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J. Robert Oppenheimer Mistakes Blunders

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.

~ J. Robert Oppenheimer

J. Robert Oppenheimer Deep Truth Profound

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

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J. Robert Oppenheimer Beautiful Everything Very

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

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J. Robert Oppenheimer Man Action Mystery

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

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J. Robert Oppenheimer Marriage Art Mother

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

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J. Robert Oppenheimer I Am Become Worlds

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

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J. Robert Oppenheimer True Pessimist Optimist

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.

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J. Robert Oppenheimer Autumn Friends Spring

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.

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J. Robert Oppenheimer Sweet You See

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

J. Robert Oppenheimer Work Changes Problem
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