One of the best movies of 2023, Oppenheimer It follows the story of a New York-born scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer Aand his crucial role in the development of the devastating atomic bomb, also known as the Manhattan Project.
As one of the most brilliant pieces created by the director Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer She presented a formidable challenge to her summer rival Barbie When it was nominated for thirteen Oscars, including Best Achievement in a Director for Christopher Nolan, which Greta Gerwig missed.
Here are the best quotes from Oppenheimer.
- Caption: Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to man. That's why he was chained to a rock and tortured forever.
- Louis Strauss: Amateurs looking for the sun. eat the food. Power remains in the shadows.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: And now I have become Death, the destroyer of worlds.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: They won't fear it until they understand it. They won't understand it until they use it. Theory will only take you so far.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: How long have you been British? Klaus Fuchs: Ever since Hitler told me I wasn't German.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: I don't know if we can be trusted with such a weapon. But I know the Nazis couldn't do that.
- Albert Einstein: When they've punished you enough, they'll serve you salmon and potato salad, give speeches, give you a medal, and pat you on the back to tell you all is forgiven. Just remember, it won't be yours…it'll be theirs.
- Katie Oppenheimer: You don't get to commit a sin and then ask us all to feel sorry for you when there are consequences.
- Niels Bohr: Is it big enough? C. Robert Oppenheimer: Ending the War? Niels Bohr: To end all wars.
- Katie Oppenheimer: Do you think because you let them tar and feather that the world will forgive you? They won't.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: Mr president. I feel like my hands are stained with blood.
- Louis Strauss: Genius is no guarantee of wisdom. How could this man who had seen so much be so blind?
- Niels Bohr: You are the man who gave them the power to destroy themselves. The world is not ready.
- Isidor Rabi: A bomb falls and falls on the just and the unjust. I do not hope that the culmination of three centuries of physics will be a diamond weapon
- Edward Teller: Would the Japanese surrender if they knew what destruction would come?