If you’ve seen Oppenheimer, then you know how emotional some scenes can be. This story about making the atomic bomb is an important one in history. Here are some of the best Oppenheimer movie quotes from J. Robert Oppenheimer, Strauss, Kitty, Einstein, Groves, and more.
Best Oppenheimer Movie Quotes
During World War II, Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves Jr. appoints physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to work on the top-secret Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer and a team of scientists spend years developing and designing the atomic bomb. They finally see their work come to fruition when a atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima. Oppenheimer must live with the knowledge that he created this weapon.
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- Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to man. For this, he was chained to a rock and tortured for eternity.
- It’s not a new weapon. It’s a new world. -Niels Bohr
- These things are hard on your heart. – J. Robert Oppenheimer quotes
- Are you saying there’s a chance we destroy the world? -Leslie Groves
- They won’t fear it until they understand it. And they won’t understand it until they use it. -Oppenheimer
- God doesn’t play dice. -Lewis Strauss quotes in Oppenheimer
- Zero would be nice. -General Groves
- General, I said I understood, not that I agree. -Ernest Lawrence
- I’m not trained in anything. I’m a self-made man. -Lewis Strauss
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- Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. -Oppenheimer
- You didn’t drop the bomb, I did. –Truman
- You don’t get to commit sin and then ask us all to feel sorry for you when there are consequences. -Kitty
- We’ve got one hope. Antisemitism. -Oppenheimer
- We’re not convicting. We’re just denying. -Strauss quotes Oppenheimer movie
- It may not be your fault, but it’s your problem. -Oppenheimer
- Amateurs chase the sun and get burned. Power stays in the shadows. -Lewis Strauss
- Why limit yourself to one dogma? -Oppenheimer
- Just remember, it won’t be for you… it would be for them. -Albert Einstein
- Tell her to bring in the sheets. -Oppenheimer
- You sit there day after day letting them take our lives apart. Why won’t you fight? -Kitty
- I believe we did. -Oppenheimer
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