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To recruit staff, I traveled all over the country talking with people who had been working on one or another aspect of the atomic-energy enterprise and people in radar work, for example, and underwater sound, telling them about the job, the place that we are going to, and enlisting their enthusiasm.

~J. Robert Oppenheimer

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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

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Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

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In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

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I was born in New York in 1904.

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My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.

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In the spring of 1929, I returned to the United States. I was homesick for this country. I had learned in my student days a great deal about the new physics. I wanted to pursue this myself, to explain it, and to foster its cultivation.

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In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.

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I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.

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I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Physicist

Born: April 22nd, 1904

Died: February 18th, 1967

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