Robert Oppenheimer — "The scientist is a man who seeks the truth, no matter how uncomfortable it may b…"

"The atomic bomb is a weapon which is new in many respects. It is a weapon of terror, a weapon for exterminating whole populations."

"We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detec…"

"We are scientists. We are not politicians. We are not moralists. We are scientists. We have done our job. It is up to others to decide what to do with it."

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

"The atomic bomb is too terrible to be used as a weapon of war."