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…

Quote by J Robert Oppenheimer

Topics: Success Quotes

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems...

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems...

There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma...

There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma...

The most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue.

The most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue.

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

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

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up...

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up...

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite...

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite...

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to...

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to...

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up...

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up...

In a free world, if it is to remain free, we must maintain, with our...

In a free world, if it is to remain free, we must maintain, with our...

It worked. (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation).

It worked. (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation).

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

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

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

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous...

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous...

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous...

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous...

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

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

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist...

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist...

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But...

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But...

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust...

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust...

But when the prayer is ended, then disperse abroad in the land and seek of...

But when the prayer is ended, then disperse abroad in the land and seek of...