Robert Oppenheimer — "We may be living in a world where the future is already written, but we still ha…"

"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…"

"There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago."

"When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic …"

"I am a physicist. I am not a philosopher. I am not a theologian. I am a physicist. And I have done my job."

"We have to find a way to control this weapon, or it will control us."