Oppenheimer Nuclear Weapons Quotes & Sayings

When you're young your mother shields you from the world because she thinks you're too young to understand, and when she's old you shield her because she's too old to understand - or to have any more understanding inflicted upon her. The curve of life goes: want to know, know, don't want to know. — Allison Pearson

Do you eat decayed food? No. Well, don't feed your mind with decayed books. Be as careful with the nutrition of your mind as you are with the nutrition of your body. — Robert Muller

Nelson Mandela went to jail believing in violence, and 27 years later he and his colleagues had slowly and carefully honed the skills, the incredible skills, that they needed to turn one of the most vicious governments the world has known into a democracy. And they did it in a total devotion to non-violence. — Scilla Elworthy

If we recognize our talents and use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, we will rise to the top of our field. — Ben Carson

Everywhere you look you see people with things that you do not have, and it has a profound mental effect. — Damien Echols

You may be able to get the bone down your throat
But if it reaches your stomach it will tear your navel.
(Gulistan) — Idries Shah

I won't stop fighting to make life better for working Americans and give those who are just trying to find a decent job the opportunity to do so. — Jeff Merkley

And on the menu, it says "bill of fare". They won't use "menu", you see, because it was French. — Robert Galbraith

He would live alone and broken, in a prison he could never escape, created by the brother he had betrayed. — Julia Mills

A man or a woman can inspire such deep fantasy and emotion that through the lovemaking embrace of a partners body we make break through the limits of the human condition to touch upon another level of reality. — Thomas Moore

IN 1959, Oppenheimer attended a conference in Rheinfelden, West Germany, sponsored by the Congress on Cultural Freedom. He and twenty other world-renowned intellectuals gathered in the luxurious Saliner Hotel on the banks of the Rhine near Basel to discuss the fate of the Western industrialized world. Safe in this cloistered environment, Oppenheimer broke his silence on nuclear weapons and spoke with uncharacteristic clarity about how they were seen and valued in American society. "What are we to make of a civilization which has always regarded ethics as an essential part of human life," he asked, but "which has not been able to talk about the prospect of killing almost everybody except in prudential and game-theoretical terms? — Kai Bird