J. Robert Oppenheimer — People

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

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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