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Quotes by J. Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer, often called the "father of the atomic bomb," was a theoretical physicist whose groundbreaking work during World War II led to the creation of the first nuclear weapons as part of the Manhattan Project. Born on April 22, 1904, in New York City, Oppenheimer's brilliance in physics was matched by his complex personality and moral dilemmas surrounding the implications of his work. His legacy, marked by both scientific achievement and profound ethical considerations, continues to influence discussions on science and humanity's future.
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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."
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."
J. Robert Oppenheimer"Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it."
J. Robert Oppenheimer"When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb."
J. Robert Oppenheimer"If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima."
J. Robert Oppenheimer"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."
J. Robert Oppenheimer"Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists."
J. Robert Oppenheimer