You’ve served America well, and if this is the reward she has to offer, then perhaps you should turn your back on her.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Cillian Murphy · 24 quotes
Lewis Strauss
Robert Downey Jr. · 12 quotes
Leslie Groves
Matt Damon · 9 quotes
Isidor Rabi
David Krumholtz · 7 quotes
Katherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer
Emily Blunt · 7 quotes
Edward Teller
Benny Safdie · 5 quotes
Albert Einstein
Tom Conti · 4 quotes
Niels Bohr
Kenneth Branagh · 4 quotes
Leo Szilard
Máté Haumann · 3 quotes
Kenneth Nichols
Dane DeHaan · 2 quotes
Most scenes together: J. Robert Oppenheimer & Leslie Groves (4)
Oppenheimer quotes
Page 5 of 6[Ernest]
Lawrence, you embrace the revolution in physics, can’t you see it everywhere else? Picasso, Stravinsky, Freud, Marx...
[in response to being asked if he met Werner Heisenberg after leaving Europe]
No, not in person no - but you might say that our paths crossed.
[referring to Los Alamos]
Robert built that damn place. He was founder, mayor, sheriff all rolled into one.
[referring to Los Alamos]
Who could think straight in a place like that? Everybody will go crazy.
[referring to Oppenheimer]
A lot of scientists blame me, but how was I supposed to protect him?
[referring to Oppenheimer]
I have always assumed, and now assume, that he is loyal to the United States. I believe this, and I shall believe it until I see very conclusive proof to the opposite.
[referring to the Chevalier incident]
I’ve seen so many versions of it. I wasn’t confused before, but I’m certainly getting there now.
[referring to the hydrogen bomb]
If it could put us ahead again, the President of the United States needs to know about it. And if there’s a possibility that the Russians know about it from a spy at Los Alamos, then we’ve gotta get going.
[referring to who is behind Oppenheimer's "security hearing"]
Wake up! It is Strauss! It’s always been Strauss, and you know it. Why won’t you fight!?
[to Groves]
You didn’t hire me despite my left-wing past, you hired me because of it. So you could control me.
[to his counsel, Lloyd Garrison]
Only a fool or an adolescent presumes to know someone else’s relationship, and you’re neither, Lloyd. Kitty and I, we’re grown-ups. We’ve walked through fire together, and she’ll do fine.