Oppenheimer

"History will judge us, but history isn't here now."

"You can't build a bomb on sentiment. You need discipline."

"War is the ultimate test of a nation's will and capability."

"I don't care about your doubts, Oppenheimer. I care about results."

"This isn't a physics problem anymore. It's about what we do with the power we've created."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"We sought truth and found responsibility instead."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"The greatest discoveries humble rather than elevate."

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

"To know is to be forever changed."

"The price of progress is eternal vigilance."

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

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

"Ambition without ethics is the road to ruin."