J Robert Oppenheimer I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany. – J Robert Oppenheimer
J Robert Oppenheimer In the spring of 1929, I returned to the United States. I was homesick for this country. I had learned in my student days a great deal about the new physics. I wanted to pursue this myself, to explain it, and to foster its cultivation. – J Robert Oppenheimer
J Robert Oppenheimer To recruit staff, I traveled all over the country talking with people who had been working on one or another aspect of the atomic-energy enterprise and people in radar work, for example, and underwater sound, telling them about the job, the place that we are going to, and enlisting their enthusiasm. – J Robert Oppenheimer
J Robert Oppenheimer The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another. – J Robert Oppenheimer
J Robert Oppenheimer Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries. – J Robert Oppenheimer
J Robert Oppenheimer My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things. – J Robert Oppenheimer
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
J Robert Oppenheimer In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days. – J Robert Oppenheimer
J Robert Oppenheimer To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly. – J Robert Oppenheimer
