J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
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The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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I think the Supreme Court has not yet caught up to an era in which one keeps one's papers in a cloud, not a castle.
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I'm the sort of person who keeps a lot to myself.
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I do know some missed tackles usually that comes down to leverage, and I know those are correctable and fixable.
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I'm a big fan of Samantha Bee's.
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I've never been afraid of much, and like any normal kid, I liked to push the limits of what I could do.
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Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It's made me more professional.
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Debased men, but they all had something in common: They showed a keen regard for virtue, and tried to dress themselves in that costume. Hypocrisy, for all its bad reputation, at least showed a decent respect for goodness.
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We are placed in the genus of Homo, which is Latin for man - Homo sapiens: supposedly wise men. I sometimes think - wonder - whether we really are wise men.
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Like I said, repetition in practice and hard work.
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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.
