J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes

The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

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We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.

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Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.

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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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