“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...”

“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, ...”

“We(Pakistan) will eat grass, even go hungry, but we will get one of our own (Atom bomb).... We have no other choice!”

“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, ...”

“When this reality, the one and only power that checks and disciplines man from within, vanishes because belief in it is slackening, the social domain falls prey to passions. The ensuing vacuum is f...”

“When this reality, the one and only power that checks and disciplines man from within, vanishes because belief in it is slackening, the social domain falls prey to passions. The ensuing vacuum is f...”

“to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”

“If you want to know what God thinks about any situation in the world, think like a parent.”

“If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.”