If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds. -J. Robert Oppenheimer

 

If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds.


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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.

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

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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

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