“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 ...”

“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, ...”

“Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.”

“My heart had melted into something akin to a sensation of happiness, peace of mind one might even say, at the realization that I had now reached the very bottom of agony.”

“To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, cant sit still, move, or even go decently insane.”

“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”

“As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.”

“What a curious power words have.”