J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
-
Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
-
The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
-
Historically, in India, the strange fact was that the equity owner was not taking as much hit as the lender. Therefore, if we restore the first principle of economics, that first the equity owner needs to take the hit and then the lender, we will get a good solution.
-
I couldn't speak any English when I first left Russia, and Intimissimi taught me everything. The team was like a family to me - they showed me how to model and how to stay in shape. They really believed in me.
-
I left Somalia when I was seven years old, but I witnessed a whole year in a war.
-
'Life as a Dog' is when I really started to feel comfortable, like I had the due north on my compass.
-
Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
-
The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
-
The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
-
Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
-
The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.
-
How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
-
'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
-
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
-
I am about safety for the people and the planet.
-
Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
-
Nothing is an obstacle unless you say it is.
-
My first occupation was to map the country.
-
With any good projects, I feel like the off-screen chemistry factors on-screen. It's great when you don't have to force it, but when it's not there, you better focus on getting there because, as we live with these characters, we spend more time with one another than we do our families at home.
-
In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.
-
Why are there beings at all instead of nothing? That is the question. Presumably it is not arbitrary question, "Why are there beings at all instead of nothing"- this is obviously the first of all questions. Of course it is not the first question in the chronological sense. And yet, we are each touched once, maybe even every now and then, by the concealed power of this question, without properly grasping what is happening to us. In great despair, for example, when all weight tends to dwindle away from things and the sense of things grows dark, the question looms.
-
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.
