Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.
J. Robert OppenheimerOptimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right.
J. Robert OppenheimerI can't think that it would be terrible of me to say - and it is occasionally true - that I need physics more than friends.
J. Robert OppenheimerWe do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.
J. Robert Oppenheimer