The Weight of Creation: The Profound Quotes from Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer film quotes explore the moral complexities of the atomic bomb, highlighting themes of fear, forgiveness, power, and the dawn of a new era.

⊙ Quotes from the Film Oppenheimer

The film Oppenheimer, the twelfth feature film directed by Christopher Nolan, is an American biographical film about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist who played a pivotal role in the Manhattan Project, which led to the development of the atomic bomb. The film received multiple accolades, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, and Best Music at the 96th Academy Awards. It features the iconic line, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds," attributed to Oppenheimer. Though lengthy at three hours, it is a deeply impactful and profound film.

Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to man.

For this he was chained to a rock and tortured for eternity.

- Opening Caption in Oppenheimer(film) -

• 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. - J. Robert Oppenheimer in Oppenheimer(film) -

• When they've punished you enough, they'll serve you salmon and potato salad, make speeches, give you a medal, and pat you in the back telling all is forgiven. Just remember, it won't be for you... it would be for them. - Albert Einstein in Oppenheimer(film) -

• You drop a bomb, and it falls on the just and the unjust. I don't wish the culmination of three centuries of physics to be a weapon of mass destruction. - Isidor Rabi in Oppenheimer(film) -

• Amateurs seek the sun. Get eaten. Power stays in the shadows. - Lewis Strauss in Oppenheimer(film) -

• The truly vindictive are patient as saints. - Kitty Oppenheimer in Oppenheimer(film) -

• The world will remember this day! - J. Robert Oppenheimer in Oppenheimer(film) -

• This Isn’t A New Weapon, It’s A New World. - Niels Bohr in Oppenheimer(film) -

• Why limit yourself to just one dogma? - J. Robert Oppenheimer in Oppenheimer(film) -

Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.

- J. Robert Oppenheimer in Oppenheimer(film) -

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