Oppenheimer

"I have lived a life of ideas, and ideas have their own terrible weight."

"The world we inherited and the world we created are at war within us."

"To understand the nature of matter is to understand the nature of power."

"The mind reaches for truth, but the soul yearns for peace."

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

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

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

"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."

"The only thing that matters is that we did what we thought was right."

"Fear is the tool of a man who talks when he should listen."

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

"I believe your time will come, if you continue your work with sufficient energy and patience."

"Knowledge without conscience is dangerous."

"The atom has given us enormous power, but has not changed us."

"We are not the arbiters of history."

"Beauty and genius are always strange bedfellows."

"I believe in the value of science, but I also believe in the responsibility of the scientist."

"The effort to construct peace is sometimes harder than the conduct of war."

"We cannot turn back."

"In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself—nature does it for you."

"The world changed, and we did not fully understand what we had wrought."

"Education is the most powerful weapon against ignorance."

"Discipline and freedom are not incompatible."

"There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry."

"The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality ought to be."

"If you believe that the sky is blue, then you see a blue sky."

"The most important part of any scientific endeavor is the integrity of the observer."

"Art is not decoration for your home. Art is revolution."

"Music and physics share a deep connection through mathematics and harmony."