J. Robert Oppenheimer

I am a little tired of being called the father of the atomic bomb. I am not the father of the atomic bomb. I am the father of the atomic bomb program.

The atomic bomb is the turn of the screw. It has made the prospect of future war unendurable.

There is something irreducibly humorous about the human condition, about man's thinking he can understand the universe.

The trouble with secrecy is that it denies to the government itself the wisdom and resources of the whole community, of the whole country.

The history of science is the history of a succession of false steps.

The good of a man is not in what he gets, but in what he becomes.

We have known sin. And this is a knowledge we cannot lose.

The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world.