Oppenheimer 2023 quotes, page 4

Lewis Strauss

Survival in Washington is about knowing how to get things done.

Niels Bohr

The power you are about to reveal will forever outlive the Nazis, and the world is not prepared.

Katherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer

The truly vindictive are as patient as saints.

Katherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer

The world is changing. Reforming. This is your moment.

Niels Bohr

We have to make the politicians understand: this isn’t a new weapon, it’s a new world. I’ll be out there, doing what I can, but you.. you’re an American Prometheus - the man who gave them the power to destroy themselves - and they’ll respect that. Then, the work really begins.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

We’re all simple souls, I guess.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

We’re theorists. Yes? We imagine a future, and our imaginings horrify us. They won’t fear it until they understand it, and they won’t understand it until they’ve used it. When the world learns the terrible secret of Los Alamos, our work here will ensure a peace mankind has never seen -- a peace based on the kind of international cooperation that Roosevelt always envisaged.

Isidor Rabi

Why go through all this against a man who’s accomplished what Dr. Oppenheimer has? Look at his record; we have an A-bomb and a whole series of it, and we have a whole series of Super bombs. What more do you want? Mermaids?

Edward Teller

Would the Japanese surrender if they knew what was coming?

Lewis Strauss

You don’t know scientists like I do, counselor. They resent anyone who questions their judgement, especially if you’re not one of them.

Isidor Rabi

You drop a bomb, it falls on the just and unjust. I don't wish for the culmination for three centuries of physics to be a weapon of mass destruction.

Isidor Rabi

You drown in ten feet of water or ten thousand, what’s the difference? We can already drown Russia, and they know it.

Katherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer

You sit there, day after day, letting them pick our lives to pieces. Why won’t you fight?

Katherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer

You think because you let them tar and feather you that the world will forgive you? They won't.

Edward Teller

You’re a politician now, Robert. You left physics behind many years ago.