Oppenheimer

"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."

"The world has changed, and we with it."

"We knew the world would not be the same."

"Science is not a collection of laws, a catalogue of unrelated facts. It is a creation of the human mind, with its freely invented ideas and concepts."

"I feel I have blood on my hands."

"The only thing that matters is what you do now."

"In some crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin."

"When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it."

"We are not only scientists, but also human beings."

"The effort to build a weapon of mass destruction is obscene."

"I don't believe in the king's English, language is in flux."

"If you believe in democracy, you must also believe in the people's right to know."

"The tree of science bears poisonous fruit."

"We are building the gates of hell, and we should look at what we are doing."

"Science belongs to the civilized world before it belongs to the military."

"Every man who has ever lived has known that there is a beast within him."

"To permit or to encourage the development of atomic weapons upon the assumption that they may be used is to act criminally."

"The hope of eventual atomic war is the last hope of peace."

"We have made the world a dangerous place."

"Ideas are more powerful than guns."

"Responsibility lies with the scientist."

"The physicists have known sin, and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose."

"I am a scientist and I believe in the pursuit of truth."

"Doubt is the essence of scientific inquiry."

"We cannot allow fear to guide our decisions."

"The beauty of physics lies in its fundamental truths."

"In the end, we are all responsible for our choices."

"The future belongs to those who can imagine it."

"War does not determine who is right, only who is left."

"A scientist must be willing to question everything."