J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes About History

Quotes about: History

• The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

• I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Death, Military, Hiroshima And Nagasaki

  Onthe detonationof the first atomicbomb,16 Jul1945.Quoted in Len Giovanitti and Fred FreedThe Decision to Drop the Bomb (1965).

• The theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Science, History, Modern

• 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

  Sweet, History, Bombs

  Quoted in In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer: usaec Transcript of Hearing Before Personnel Security Board (1954)

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