I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany. J. Robert Oppenheimer Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men’s lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community. J. Robert Oppenheimer Read Quote
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 Read Quote
In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged. J. Robert Oppenheimer Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them. J. Robert Oppenheimer Read Quote
