“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...”

“The career of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who headed the Manhattan Project, draws such questions to a focus that resembles the bead of a laser-gunsight on a victims breastbone. It was Oppe...”

“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 are well ahead of your own society, your path will seem a wrong path to your own people!”

“Oppenheimer’s 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...”

“Hating yourself is like hating the sun. No matter how much you complain of it agitating your eyes, its brilliance shines on.”

“It is in the darkest hour, when we are faced with our deepest most wrenching fears, that we are given the greatest strength. The choice is whether we succumb to the fear or rise with courage to fac...”

“In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.”

“All have the ability to perceive and live in dimensional synthesis, yet they spend time with the sciences trying to separate these realms, splitting the worlds into minutia, seeking the god particl...”

“The Heart of Gold fled on silently through the night of space, now on conventional photon drive. Its crew of four were ill as ease knowing that they had been brought together not of their own volit...”

“What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand...”