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

• J. Robert Oppenheimer

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

• Oppenheimer

When we deny the evil within ourselves, we dehumanize ourselves, and we deprive ourselves not only of our own destiny, but of any possibility of dealing with the evil of others.

• Oppenheimer

But

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin. 

• Oppenheimer

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man

• Oppenheimer

And

Knowledge cannot be pursued without morality.

• Oppenheimer

In no other type of warfare does the advantage lie so heavily with the aggressor

• James Franck

We had a clear, unmistakable, specific objective. Although at first there was considerable doubt whether we could attain that objective, there was never any doubt about what it was

• Leslie Richard Groves

The result was an operation whose efficiency was without precedent

• Leslie Richard Groves

The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking. The solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind.

• Albert Einstein

Mister President, I have blood on my hands.

• Oppenheimer