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.
From J. Robert Oppenheimer
In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.
No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.
The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.
There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.
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.
I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.
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