Robert Oppenheimer — "We are not to be saved by technology, we are to be saved by humanity."

"The greatest adventure is to explore the unknown."

"The atomic bomb is a weapon for aggressors, and the atomic bomb is a weapon of terror. It is not a defensive weapon. It is not a weapon of precision. It is a weapon for killing people. And its whole h…"

"In the spring of 1929, I returned to the United States. I was homesick for this country. I had learned in my student days a great deal about the new physics. I wanted to pursue this myself, to explain…"

"Truth, not a pet, is man's best friend."

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