J. Robert Oppenheimer

“The experience of seeing how our thought and our words and our ideas have been confined by the limitation of our experience is one which is salutary and is in a certain sense good for a man's morals as well as good for his pleasure. It seems to us [scientists] that this is an opening up of the human spirit , avoiding its provincialism and narrowness.”
― J. Robert Oppenheimer, The Flying Trapeze: Three Crises For Physicists

“My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.”
― J. Robert Oppenheimer

“Mr. President, I have blood on my hands.”
― J. Robert Oppenheimer

“There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.”
― J. Robert Oppenheimer