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Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Both, as a measure of their creation, have al...

By J. 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.

By J. Robert Oppenheimer
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

By J. Robert Oppenheimer
The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist knows it.

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

By 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.

By J. Robert Oppenheimer
I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.N.B. This is a paraphrase from the ancient Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita.

By J. Robert Oppenheimer
Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

By J. Robert Oppenheimer
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

By J. Robert Oppenheimer