Oppenheimer 2023 quotes, page 3

Leslie Groves

I think one of the wisest things I ever did was when I selected the director of Los Alamos.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

I’m committed to thinking freely about how to improve our world. Why limit yourself to one dogma?

J. Robert Oppenheimer

If atomic weapons are to be added to the arsenals of a warring world, then the day will come when people will curse the name of Los Alamos.

Edward Teller

In a great number of cases I have seen Dr Oppenheimer act in a way which for me was exceedingly hard to understand. I thoroughly disagreed with him in numerous issues, and his actions, frankly, appeared to me confused and complicated. To this extent, I feel that I would like to see the vital interests of this country in hands which I understand better and therefore trust more.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Is anyone ever going to tell the truth about what's happening here?

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Is light made up of particles or waves? Quantum mechanics says it's both. How can it be both? It can't. It's paradoxical, and yet, it works.

Lewis Strauss

J. Robert Oppenheimer the martyr. I gave him exactly what he wanted. To be remembered for Trinity. Not Hiroshima, not Nagasaki. He should be thanking me.

Edward Teller

J. Robert Oppenheimer, sphinx-like guru of the atom. No one knows what you believe! Do you?

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Members of the security board, the so-called derogatory information in your indictment of me cannot be fully understood except in the context of my life and my work.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Oh-penheimer, Op-penheimer; whatever way you say it, they know I'm Jewish.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Once it’s used, nuclear war, maybe all war, becomes unthinkable.

Lewis Strauss

Oppenheimer wanted to own the atomic bomb. He wanted to be the man who moved the Earth. He talks about putting the nuclear genie back in the bottle. Well I'm here to tell you that I know J. Robert Oppenheimer, and if he could do it all over, he'd do it all the same. You know he's never once said that he regrets Hiroshima? He'd do it all over. Why? Because it made him the most important man who ever lived!

Niels Bohr

Quantum physics is not a step forward; it is a new way to understand reality. Einstein's opened the door, [and] now we are seeing a world inside of our world; a world of energy and paradox that not everyone can accept.

Leslie Groves

Robert, we’ve given them an ace. It’s for them to play the hand.

Albert Einstein

So here we are, lost in your quantum world of probabilities and needing certainty.