J. Robert Oppenheimer

"In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged."

"It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them."

"It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them."

"My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art."

"Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful."

"The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country."

"The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another."

"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true."

"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."