J. Robert Oppenheimer — People

A worn pink eraser stands on a brass pedestal beside green smudges against deep teal. — Original artwork

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

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Observers in silhouette watch from a bunker window as a blinding light rises over the desert behind a distant tower. — Original artwork

I am become Death, shatterer of worlds.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Painterly colorful glass marbles arranged along chalk orbital circles on pastel lavender ground. — Original artwork

There are children playing in the street 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

A cracked glass sphere glows blue-white above scattered fragments on a dark surface. — Original artwork

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 bomb.

J. Robert Oppenheimer