Oppenheimer, Julius Robert
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Oppenheimer, Julius Robert
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.
Oppenheimer, Julius Robert
Happiness
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.
Oppenheimer, Julius Robert
Physics
A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
Oppenheimer, Julius Robert
Mistakes
The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist knows it.
Oppenheimer, Julius Robert
Optimism
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.
Oppenheimer, Julius Robert
Technology
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.
Oppenheimer, Julius Robert
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