Quote by Robert Oppenheimer (about Optimism, Pessimism)

Quote by Robert Oppenheimer (about Optimism, Pessimism)

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist knows it.

Robert Oppenheimer

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

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

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I need physics more than friends.

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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.

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

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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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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.

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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.

Robert Oppenheimer - June 1928

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

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Edward Teller: "Until somebody builds a bigger one."

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Robert Oppenheimer: "Chances are near zero."

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

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

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Robert Oppenheimer: "18."
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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.

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

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

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

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

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I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

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Ideas can only be useful when they come to life in many minds.

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I am not the least afraid to die.

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Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science - for to fill your heart with love is enough!

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Cogito, ergo sum. I think; therefore I am.

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