“A millenarian fire burned in Oppenheimers spirit, fueled by his pride as a world-historical individual, by his fear that the natural force he loosed upon the world would escape all human control, a...”

“Oppenheimer, haunted by his leading role in the first use of atomic weapons, understood only one aspect of prudence. His longing not to do evil himself blinded him to the need to ward off the evil ...”

“Perhaps no theoretical man can be equal to such a burden: to feel knowledge as power when ones mind reshapes the world irrevocably, to see the light of truth as the agent of some dark majesty, is n...”

“Oppenheimer was lamenting the subservience of science to innate human cruelty in an address to the American Philosophical Society: We have made a thing, a most terrible weapon, that has altered abr...”

“Oppenheimers theorizing was so startlingly original so far in advance of the corroborating observations and so far off the beaten track of astrophysical research that his colleagues ignorance cos...”

“A millenarian fire burned in Oppenheimer’s spirit, fueled by his pride as a world-historical individual, by his fear that the natural force he loosed upon the world would escape all human control, ...”

“If you come away with me, I can promise you pain and disgrace, I said. But I will love you like no other can.”

“Vain mistaken mortals, who, valuing themselves on names and titles, suppose that the virtues of the mind must be attached to an empty sound, when every day's experience proves that birth is disgrac...”

“To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.”