Brilliance makes up for a lot.
You’re not just self-important, you’re actually important.[to Robert]
The power you’re about to reveal will forever outlive the Nazis. And the world is not prepared.[to Robert]
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.
Don’t alienate the only people in the world that understand what you do. One day you might need them.[to Robert]
You drop in and out of my life, and you don’t have to tell me why. Now that’s power.[to Robert]
You drop a bomb and it falls on the just and the unjust. I don’t wish the culmination of three centuries of physics to be a weapon of mass destruction.[to Robert]
You don’t get to commit the sin and then have us all feel sorry for you that it had consequences.[to Robert]
You can lift the stone without being ready for the snake that’s revealed.[to Robert]
The world, it’s pivoting in some new direction. It’s reforming. This is your moment.[to Robert]
How long have you been British?[J. Robert Oppenheimer]Since Hitler told me I wasn’t German.[Klaus Fuchs]