Robert Oppenheimer — "It is a problem of how to live with the atomic bomb, and not how to live without…"

"We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persu…"

"The atom bomb is a weapon of terror, a weapon of retaliation, and a weapon of mass destruction."

"The atomic bomb is a reminder that we are all connected, and that we all share a common destiny."

"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."

"We have to learn to live with the knowledge that we have the power to destroy ourselves, but also the power to save ourselves."