J. Robert Oppenheimer was a famous Physicist from USA, who lived between April 22, 1904 and February 18, 1967. He/she became 62 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac taurus, who is known for Security, Subtle strength, Appreciation, Instruction, Patience.
Our collection contains 12 quotes who is written / told by Robert Oppenheimer.
12 Famous quotes by J. Robert Oppenheimer
"Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man"
"No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows"
""It worked." (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation)"
"In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days"
"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"
"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds"
"Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it"
"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"
"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"
"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true"
"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"
"Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries"
