J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes
In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
Oppenheimer, J. Robert. Science and the Common Understanding. Simon and Schuster, 1954, p. 13.
He was right about the pace of technological development, but we have yet to realize his prediction of inexhaustible power.
Although a conservative Republican, he and most other CEOs of modern companies do not denigrate and ignore science the way many other conservatives have done over the years.
J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. Oppenheimer was the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory and is among those who are credited with being the "father of the atomic bomb" for their role in the Manhattan Project, the World War II undertaking that developed the first nuclear weapons. The first atomic bomb was successfully detonated on July 16, 1945, in the Trinity test in New Mexico.
