J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes

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The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose. - J. Robert Oppenheimer quote.
The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer

nuclear weapons physics

We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life. - J. Robert Oppenheimer quote.
We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer Foreign Affairs

nuclear weapons cold war

Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search. - J. Robert Oppenheimer quote.
Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer The World’s Great Speeches

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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. - J. Robert Oppenheimer quote.
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

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