The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.
J. Robert OppenheimerWe know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.
J. Robert OppenheimerThe theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory.
J. Robert OppenheimerBoth the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Both, as a measure of their creation, have always had to do with the harmonization of what is new with what is familiar, with the balance between novelty and synthesis, with the struggle to make partial order in total chaos.... This cannot be an easy life.
J. Robert Oppenheimer