Robert Oppenheimer was one of the most renowned and respected atomic physicists in history. He was also a highly accomplished entrepreneur, despite his relatively short career in the field. Here, we’ll take a look at some of the important lessons we can learn from Oppenheimer’s life and career.
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Born:
April 22, 1904
Died:
February 18, 1967
Nationality:
American
Education:
Harvard College Christ’s College, Cambridge University Of Göttingen
Known For:
Nuclear Weapons Development Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff Limit Oppenheimer-Phillips Process Born-Oppenheimer Approximation
Awards:
Enrico Fermi Award
Fields:
Theoretical Physics
Institutions:
University Of California, Berkeley California Institute Of Technology Los Alamos Laboratory Institute For Advanced Study
I need physics more than friends. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
I can’t thInk that It would be terrIble of me to say–and It Is occasIonally true–that I need physIcs more than frIends. — Robert Oppenheimer
The powerful notion of entropy, which comes from a very special branch of physics … is certainly useful in the study of communication and quite helpful when applied in the theory of language. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
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. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not attempt to prevent it from doing so. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad–Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.) — J. Robert Oppenheimer
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things. — Julius Robert Oppenheimer
In a free world, if it is to remain free, we must maintain, with our lives if need be, but surely by our lives, the opportunity for a man to learn anything. — Julius Robert Oppenheimer
There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad–Gita… ‘Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.’ I suppose we all thought that, one way or another. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
A pragmatist is concerned with results, not reality. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
You can certainly destroy enough of humanity so that only the greatest act of faith can persuade you that what’s left will be human. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
Knowledge cannot be pursued without morality. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
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. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
The best way to send information is to wrap it up in a person. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
Taken as a story of human achievement, and human blindness, the discoveries in the sciences are among the great epics. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change; the greatest novelty the extent of novelty. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
Today, it is not only that our kings do not know mathematics, but our philosophers do not know mathematics and–to go a step further–our mathematicians do not know mathematics. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
Sumebaccess to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
It worked.’ (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation). — J. Robert Oppenheimer
To the confusion of our enemies. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
Morose. — Kai Bird
If we must live with a perpetual sense that the world and the men in it are greater than we and too much for us. — Julius Robert Oppenheimer
Maybe General Groves was right. Maybe we should just banish thinking forever. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
There are people who are willing to protect freedom until there is nothing left of it. — Heinar Kipphardt
I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
I was born in New York in 1904. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
Genius sees the answer before the question. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
When you see something that is technically sweet you go ahead and do it. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
We know too much for one man to know too much. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
If we must live with a perpetual sense that the world and the men in it are greater than we and too much for us, let it be the measure of our virtue that we know this and seek no comfort. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
The most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
Sometimes the answer to fear does not lie in trying to explain away the causes, sometimes the answer lies in courage. — J. Robert Oppenheimer