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Things which stimulate my curiosity are pretty far removed from the practical and therefore from classification.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
Age: 62 †
Born: 1904
Born: April 22
Died: 1967
Died: February 18
Art Collector
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Nuclear Physicist
Theoretical Physicist
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New York City
New York
Julius Robert Oppenheimer
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If we must live with a perpetual sense that the world and the men in it are greater than we and too much for us, let it be the measure of our virtue that we know this and seek no comfort.
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This is a world in which each of us, knowing his limitations, knowing the evils of superficiality and the terrors of fatigue, will have to cling to what is close to him, to what he knows, to what he can do. . .
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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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To the confusion of our enemies.
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You can certainly destroy enough of humanity so that only the greatest act of faith can persuade you that what's left will be human.
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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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The most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue.
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Pragmatism is an intellectually safe but ultimately sterile philosophy.
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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
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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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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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The theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory.
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