The best Quotes by Robert Oppenheimer

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.

Physics

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

Science

The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.

Peace

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

Education College

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.

Physics

To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.

October 1929

Happiness

I need physics more than friends.

Physics

The atomic bomb 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.

Nuclear Weapons

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

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.

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.

It was evening when we came to the river
With a low moon over the desert
that we had lost in the mountains, forgotten,
what with the cold and the sweating
and the ranges barring the sky.
And when we found it again,
In the dry hills down by the river,
half withered, we had
the hot winds against us.

There were two palms by the landing;
The yuccas were flowering; there was
a light on the far shore, and tamarisks.
We waited a long time, in silence.
Then we heard the oars creaking
and afterwards, I remember,
the boatman called us.
We did not look back at the mountains.

June 1928

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You are the man who gave them the power to destroy themselves. And the world is not prepared.

Niels Bohr in Oppenheimer

Robert Oppenheimer: "Our work here will ensure peace mankind has never seen."
Edward Teller: "Until somebody builds a bigger one."

Oppenheimer

Edward Teller

Leslie Groves: "Are we saying there's a chance that when we push that button, we destroy the world?"
Robert Oppenheimer: "Chances are near zero."

J. Robert Oppenheimer in Oppenheimer

We've got one hope. All of America's industrial might and scientific innovation connected here.

J. Robert Oppenheimer in Oppenheimer

World War II would be over. Our boys would come home.

Lewis Strauss in Oppenheimer

Leslie Groves: "Die haben 12 Monate Vorsprung."
Robert Oppenheimer: "18."
Leslie Groves: "Woher wollen Sie das bitte wissen?"

Oppenheimer

We imagine a future, and our imaginings horrify us. They won't fear it until they understand it. And they won't understand it until they've used it.

Oppenheimer

No wonder the city never sleeps, it's too busy trying to get laid.

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Sex New York City

There are eight million people in this city. And those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders.

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Fame New York City

If I can make it there
I'll make it anywhere
It's up to you
New York, New York

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New York City

Manhattan, for millions of our forefathers, the gateway to hope, opportunity and happiness beyond their wildest dreams. Today, that hope is still alive, it's called "The First Date". On Saturday nights, every restaurant in Lower Manhattan resembles its own little Ellis Island.

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New York City Manhatten

New Mexico. It's another state. I mean, it's like California, just less traffic.

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California New Mexico

I love the American Southwest, for starters. You may call them Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah. I call them heaven.

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Nevada Arizona New Mexico Utah

I have traveled to many places but have no desire to leave New Mexico.

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New Mexico

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to New Mexico - and that's pretty much the same thing.

New Mexico

This is why you never go to New Jersey!

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New Jersey

The results of a new study are out this week saying that New Jersey is one of the most livable states in the country. The study has a margin of error of 100 percent.

Conan O'Brien

New Jersey

Just when you thought things couldn't get any worse, we gotta go to Jersey.

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New Jersey

I feel like if you're in Jersey, you have to be a Jersey Devils fan. Anybody born within the confines of the border of the state of New Jersey, I feel, should be a Jersey Devils fan.

Kevin Smith

New Jersey

Quantum physics makes me so happy. It's like looking at the universe naked.

Sheldon Cooper in The Big Bang Theory - Season 5 Episode 20

Universe Physics Quantum Mechanics

This physicist goes into an ice cream parlor every week and orders an ice cream sundae for himself, and then offers one to the empty stool sitting next to him. This goes on for a while until the owner finally asks him what he's doing. The man says, "Well, I'm a physicist, and quantum mechanics teaches us, that it is possible for the matter above this stool to spontaneously turn into a beautiful woman who might accept my offer and fall in love with me." The owner then says, "Lots of single, beautiful women come in here ever day. Buy an ice cream for one of them, and they might fall in love with you." And the physicist says, "Yeah, but what are the odds of that happening?!"

Penny in The Big Bang Theory - Season 2 Episode 19

Physics Quantum Mechanics

Sheldon: "Hey, look, I found my missing neutrino."
Howard: "Oh good, we can take it off the milk carton..."

Howard Wolowitz in The Big Bang Theory - Season 2 Episode 4

Physics

Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.

Albert Einstein

Humanity Weapons Nuclear Weapons

I do not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth - rocks!

Albert Einstein

Weapons World War III Nuclear Weapons

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain.

Life Optimism Dancing Rain Positive Quotes

Things are never so bad they can't be made worse.

Humphrey Bogart

Pessimism

Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

Religion Science

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

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Peace

Giving a child an education is by far one of the most important investments we can make.

Usher

Education

Elliot: "I'm not hiding, I was just looking for my... you know, the... I was looking for my dignity."
J.D.: "Did you find it?"
Elliot: "No. I must've left it at college."

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College Dignity

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.
I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.

John Lennon

Happiness

Things never happen the same way twice.

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Every Star that you see in the Sky might be a sun to someone.

Carl Sagan

Stars

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

Stephen Hawking

Knowledge Intelligence

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

Niels Bohr

Physics Atoms

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