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Happiness
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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Mistakes
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A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Optimism
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The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist knows it.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Perception
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There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Power
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We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Questions
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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Science
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In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Technology
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When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer
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I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.
N.B.: This is a paraphrase from the ancient Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer, On the invention of the atom bomb
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Books by and about J. Robert Oppenheimer