Quotes by J. Robert Oppenheimer

"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."

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"There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors."

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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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"Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful."

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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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