Oppenheimer

"Science advances through the courage of great minds."

"To create is to accept responsibility for one's creation."

"The world before the bomb and the world after are different universes."

"We were young men playing with the forces of nature."

"The greatest tragedy is knowledge without wisdom."

"I regret nothing about the science, only about how it was used."

"Success in science is measured by understanding, not by conquest."

"The human spirit is capable of both creation and destruction."

"We sought the secrets of the atom and found the secret of our own darkness."

"Ambition without ethics is the road to ruin."

"The physicist sees the world as equations; the poet sees it as meaning."

"We built our monument, and it cast a shadow over the world."

"The price of progress is eternal vigilance."

"To know is to be forever changed."

"I believe in the power of human reason and the limits of human wisdom."

"The greatest discoveries humble rather than elevate."

"We are prisoners of the age we live in."

"The pursuit of excellence often costs more than we expect to pay."

"A mind that understands the universe cannot remain unmoved by its wonder."

"We changed the nature of warfare and thereby the nature of peace."

"The scientist who acts without conscience is not truly a scientist."

"History is written by those who understand the power of their choices."

"The atom revealed that nature has secrets deeper than we imagined."

"To be brilliant is to see further than others, and sometimes that is a burden."

"We sought truth and found responsibility instead."

"The legacy of science is not what we build, but what we learn."

"A man of intellect must also be a man of conscience."

"The future will ask us why we did not do more to prevent catastrophe."

"We lived in the shadow of our own creation."

"The greatest scientific achievement carries within it the greatest danger."