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  1. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors. J. Robert Oppenheimer. Science, Errors, Doubt.

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    • “Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” ― J. Robert Oppenheimer.
    • “In battle, in forest, at the precipice in the mountains, On the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows, In sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame,
    • “We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.'
    • “The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. ” ― J. Robert Oppenheimer.
    • I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. J. Robert Oppenheimer.
    • The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. J. Robert Oppenheimer.
    • 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.
    • Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man. J. Robert Oppenheimer.
  2. Jul 21, 2023 · If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one,” was Oppenheimer’s translation of that moment in the desert of New...

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  3. Jul 24, 2023 · By James Grebey Jul 24, 2023, 3:06 PM ET. Christopher Nolan’s new film Oppenheimer is a gripping biopic about Robert J. Oppenheimer, the man primarily behind the creation of the atomic bomb. So of course, the film features his most famous quote. As Oppenheimer recalled in a 1965 NBC News documentary called The Decision to Drop the Bomb, he ...

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  4. Mar 13, 2024 · As quoted in "J. Robert Oppenheimer" by L. Barnett, in Life, Vol. 7, No. 9, International Edition (24 October 1949), p. 58; sometimes a partial version (the final sentence) is misattributed to Marcel Proust. Our own political life is predicated on openness.

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  6. In these excerpts from his farewell speech below to the Association of Los Alamos Scientists on November 2, 1945, J. Robert Oppenheimer spoke about the challenges scientists and the world faced now that atomic weapons were a reality. Rather than apologize, Oppenheimer justified pursuit of an atomic bomb as inevitable, stressing that scientists ...

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