Quotes from J. Robert Oppenheimer

When you see something technically sweet you go ahead and do it, and you argue about what to do about it, only after you have achieved success.

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.

Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.

When we deny the EVIL within ourselves, we dehumanize ourselves, and we deprive ourselves not only of our own destiny but of any possibility of dealing with the EVIL of others.

Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass and beyond there is a different country.