J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes About Physics

Quotes about: Physics

• There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Inspirational, Children, Science

  "V 65: New Challenges for human communications, Volume 4". Book by International Center for the Typographic Arts, Southern Illinois University, 1965.

• The general notions about human understanding...which are illustrated by discoveries in atomic physics are not in the nature of things wholly unfamiliar, wholly unheard of, or new. Even in our own culture, they have a history, and in Buddhist and Hindu thought a more considerable and central place. What we shall find is an exemplification, an encouragement, and a refinement of old wisdom.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Encouragement, Buddhist, Discovery

• [About the great synthesis of atomic physics in the 1920s:] It was a heroic time. It was not the doing of any one man; it involved the collaboration of scores of scientists from many different lands. But from the first to last the deeply creative, subtle and critical spirit of Niels Bohr guided, restrained, deepened and finally transmuted the enterprise.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Creativity, Science, Men

• I can't think that it would be terrible of me to say - and it is occasionally true - that I need physics more than friends.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Thinking, Would Be, Needs

  J. Robert Oppenheimer's letter to his brother Frank Oppenheimer (October 14, 1929), as quoted in "Robert Oppenheimer: Letters and Recollections" edited by Alice Kimball Smith (p. 135), 1995.

• I need physics more than friends.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Needs, Physics, More Than Friends

  J. Robert Oppenheimer's letter to his brother Frank Oppenheimer (October 14, 1929), as quoted in "Robert Oppenheimer: Letters and Recollections" edited by Alice Kimball Smith (p. 135), 1995.

• 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.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Powerful, Communication, Special

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