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Quotes by J. Robert Oppenheimer

I am become death, shatterer of worlds.

J. Robert Oppenheimer
Source: citing from the Bhagavad-Gita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion
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Today, it is not only that our kings do not know mathematics, but our philosophers do not know mathematics and -- to go a step further -- our mathematicians do not know mathematics.

J. Robert Oppenheimer
Source: "The Tree of Knowledge" in Harper's, 217, 1958.
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The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it.

J. Robert Oppenheimer
 
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You can certainly destroy enough of humanity so that only the greatest act of faith can persuade you that what's left will be human.

J. Robert Oppenheimer
Source: to Edward R. Murrow, CBS TV, January 4, 1955
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

J. Robert Oppenheimer
Source: speaking of Albert Einstein
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