I can't think that it would be terrible of me to say — and it is occasionally true — that I need physics more than friends.


Letter to his brother Frank Oppenheimer (14 October 1929), published in Robert Oppenheimer : Letters and Recollections (1995) edited by Alice Kimball Smith, p. 135

J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes

I can't think that it would be terrible of me to say — and it is occasionally true — that I need physics more than friends.

I can't think that it would be terrible of me to say — and it is occasionally true — that I need physics more than friends.

I can't think that it would be terrible of me to say — and it is occasionally true — that I need physics more than friends.

I can't think that it would be terrible of me to say — and it is occasionally true — that I need physics more than friends.