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J. Robert Oppenheimer
Age: 62 †
Born: 1904
Born: April 22
Died: 1967
Died: February 18
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If we ask, for instance, whether the position of the electron remains the same, we must say 'no' if we ask whether the electron's position changes with time, we must say 'no' if we ask whether the electron is at rest, we must say 'no' if we ask whether it is in motion, we must say 'no'.
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To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.
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The physicists have known sin and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
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I think that all things which evoke discipline: study, and our duties to men and to the commonwealth, war, and personal hardship, and even the need for subsistence, ought to be greeted by us with profound gratitude, for only through them can we attain to the least detachment and only so can we know peace.
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In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
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'It worked.' (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation).
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There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.
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There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality.
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Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
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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.
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Things which stimulate my curiosity are pretty far removed from the practical and therefore from classification.
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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 bomb.
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It is not possible to be a scientist unless you believe that it is good to learn... that it is of the highest value to share your knowledge... with anyone who is interested... that the knowledge of the world, and the power which this gives, is a thing which is of intrinsic value to humanity
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The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change the greatest novelty the extent of novelty.
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All history teaches us that these questions that we think the pressing ones will be transmuted before they are answered, that they will be replaced by others, and that the very process of discovery will shatter the concepts that we today use to describe our puzzlement.
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Sometimes the answer to fear does not lie in trying to explain away the causes, sometimes the answer lies in courage.
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The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.
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I can't think that it would be terrible of me to say - and it is occasionally true - that I need physics more than friends.
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In a free world, if it is to remain free, we must maintain, with our lives if need be, but surely by our lives, the opportunity for a man to learn anything
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We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.
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