Is anyone ever going to tell the truth about what’s happening here?
And now I am become Death. Destroyer of worlds.
They won’t fear it until they understand it, and they won’t understand it until they’ve used it. When the world learns the terrible secret of Los Alamos, our work here will ensure a peace mankind has never seen.
We imagine a future and our imaginings horrify us.
The world will remember this day. It’s too soon to determine what the results of the bombing are. But I’ll bet the Japanese didn’t like it.
I don’t know if we can be trusted with such a weapon. But I know the Nazis can’t. We have no choice.[to Izzy]
When I came to you with those calculations, we thought we might start a chain reaction that would destroy the entire world.[J. Robert Oppenheimer]I remember it well. What of it?[Albert Einstein]I believe we did.[J. Robert Oppenheimer]
Just because we’re building it, doesn’t mean we get to decide how it’s used.[to Leo Szilard]
If we don’t let scientists bring their families, we’ll never get the best.
Brilliance makes up for a lot.
