Oppenheimer

"Hope is the thing we hold onto when reason fails us."

"We must learn to live with our creations."

"The greatest discoveries come from asking the right questions."

"Death is not the worst of evils."

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

"I have done the best that I knew how."

"The pursuit of knowledge is never without cost."

"Every great achievement requires great conviction."

"We are not gods, though we may wield godlike power."

"Time is the stage on which all human drama unfolds."

"The true strength lies not in the bomb, but in our capacity to choose."

"We have become too powerful to be able to use our power."

"A scientist is not just someone in a laboratory with a test tube."

"I have done what I thought was best."

"The price of excellence is responsibility."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Discipline and freedom are not incompatible."

"Education is the most powerful weapon against ignorance."

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

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

"We cannot turn back."

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

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

"Beauty and genius are always strange bedfellows."

"We are not the arbiters of history."