Robert Oppenheimer

"I am become death, the shatterer of worlds"
(16 juli 1945)

The true responsibility of a scientist, as we all know, is to the integrity and vigor of his science.
"There is, in the first instance, a total lack of authoritarianism"
"this combination of courage and modesty which is the lesson that science always tries to teach to anyone who practices it"
"The whole point of science is just the opposite; to invite the detection of error and to welcome it"
"It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful, they are found because it was possible to find them."