23 ordspråk av J. Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer
"It worked." (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation according to brother, Frank)
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[Adams and Sellars show us its seductive horror, the painful dilemma that no amount of hindsight can assuage.] Lord, ... these affairs are hard on the heart.
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Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.
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Any man [Albert Einstein] whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
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Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
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Doctor Atomic
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I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
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I'll never forget his walk; I'll never forget the way he stepped out of the car.... This kind of strut. He had done it.
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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.
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In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
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No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
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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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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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The most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue.
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