109 Quotes by J. Robert Oppenheimer

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

I am literally become death, destroyer of actual worlds.

We knew the world would not be the same.

It worked." (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation according to brother, Frank)

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.

To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.

The powerful notion of entropy, which comes from a very special branch of physics … is certainly useful in the study of communication and quite helpful when applied in the theory of language.