J. Robert Oppenheimer - Quotes Collection eBook

J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER - QUOTES COLLECTION

BIOGRAPHY, ACHIEVEMENTS AND LIFE LESSONS

ABOUT J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER

J. Robert Oppenheimer, born Julius Robert Oppenheimer on April 22, 1904, in New York City, was an American theoretical physicist whose contributions to science and his pivotal role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II forever altered the course of human history. Oppenheimer''s life journey was marked by intellectual brilliance, moral complexity, and the profound responsibility that accompanies wielding scientific knowledge for both creation and destruction.

QUOTES SAMPLES:

"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."

"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."

"Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man."

"If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima."

"No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows."

"The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish."