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Danh ngôn của J. Robert Oppenheimer (Sứ mệnh: 5)

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.
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.
If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.
There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.