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Oppenheimer's famous quotes in English

About Oppenheimer's famous sayings in English are as follows:

1. I don't know if we can be trusted with such a weapon. But I have no choice.

(I don’t know if we can trust such a weapon, but I have no choice.)

2. The world is changing.Reforming.This is your moment.

(The world is changing and innovating, this is your moment.)

3. Is anyone ever going to tell the truth about what's happening here?

(Is anyone willing to tell the truth about what happened here?)

4. They won't fear it until they understand it. And they won't understand it until they've used it. Theory will take you only so far.

(They won’t be afraid until they understand what the atomic bomb is; they won’t understand until they use it. Theory can only take you so far.)

5. The man who moved the Earth.

(He is the man who shook the world.)

6. Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.

(I became Death, the Destroyer of the World)

On April 22, 1904, Robert Oppenheimer was born into a wealthy German-Jewish family in New York, USA. He was involved in literature, philosophy, language and other fields as a child, and was initially educated at Alcuin Preparatory School.

In 1911, he entered the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York. He completed the third and fourth grades in one year and skipped one semester of eighth grade.

In 1921, he entered the Chemistry Department of Harvard College and was admitted to Phi Beta Kappa during his undergraduate studies. He also obtained a postgraduate qualification in physics on the basis of independent study.

In 1925, he graduated early from Harvard University as an honorary student; in the same year, he went to the University of Cambridge in England to pursue further studies, hoping to engage in experimental physics research with Ernest Rutherford, but Ernest Rutherford refused to accept him as a student.

So he began to study theoretical physics, joined the Cavendish Laboratory, and studied under Joseph John Thomson.