But when you come right down to it the reason that we did this job is because it was an organic necessity. If you are a scientist you cannot stop such a thing. If you are a scientist you believe that it is good to find out how the world works; that it is good to find out what the realities are; that it is good to turn over to mankind at large the greatest possible power to control the world and to deal with it according to its lights and its values.


Speech to the Association of Los Alamos Scientists, 2 November 1945

J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes

But when you come right down to it the reason that we did this job is because it was an organic necessity. If you are a scientist you cannot stop...

But when you come right down to it the reason that we did this job is because it was an organic necessity. If you are a scientist you cannot stop...

But when you come right down to it the reason that we did this job is because it was an organic necessity. If you are a scientist you cannot stop...

But when you come right down to it the reason that we did this job is because it was an organic necessity. If you are a scientist you cannot stop...