J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes
See things not as they are but as they might be.
The Scientific Project that developed the Atomic Bomb. See Robert F. Kennedy {610136} for a later variant of this quotation.
J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1904-1967, Physicist and Scientific Director of the Manhattan Project Quoted in American Prometheus
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This was one of Robert Kennedy’s favorite quotes. Though his version is unique, the original idea comes from the book, Back to Methuselah. See George Bernard Shaw. {642128} The great American Scientist, J. Robert Oppenheimer, had expressed a variant of the idea in {639985} .
Many people would say the same about the present period.
- Born: April 22, 1904
- Died: February 18, 1967
- Nationality: American
- Profession: Physicist
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.
