More quotes by J. Robert Oppenheimer

"Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)"
"In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose."
"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."
"Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."