Quotes About Oppenheimer

42 A few months after Nash got out, Baumecker called the Institute for Advanced Study and asked to speak to Oppenheimer about whether Nash was now sane. Oppenheimer replied, "That's something no one on earth can tell you, doctor.

Oppenheimer remembered a line from the Bhagavad Gita, the sacred epic of the Hindus. "I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." The

Trinity's witnesses responded just as those to Apollo 11 would, as J. Robert Oppenheimer remembered: We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. Oppenheimer later said the he beheld his radiant blooming cloud and thought of Hindu scripture: Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. Aloud, however, the physicist made the ultimate engineer comment: It worked.

The trouble with Oppenheimer is that he loves a woman who doesn't love him—the United States government," Einstein said.

In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

If the radiance of a thousand suns Were to burst at once into the sky That would be like the splendour of the Mighty One... I am become Death, The shatterer of worlds. [ Quoted from the Bhagavad Gita after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki .]

When a New York Times reporter asked Oppenheimer how he felt after the bomb was tested on July 16, 1945, the father of the atomic bomb said, "Lots of boys not grown up yet will owe their life to it.

The State, in the words of Oppenheimer, is the "organization of the political means"; it is the systematization of the predatory process over a given territory.

Within a week of Hahn's discovery, American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer sketched a crude bomb on his blackboard.