Robert Oppenheimer — "Science is not a game, it is a way of life."

"The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose. It is a knowledge which has changed them forever."

"My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things."

"It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them."

"The great thing about science is that it is a way of life that teaches you that you are wrong."

"We have to learn to live with the paradox of the atomic age: the power to destroy, and the power to create."