“I can't think that it would be terrible of me to say — and it is occasionally true — that I need physics more than friends.”

— Robert Oppenheimer

Letter to his brother Frank Oppenheimer (14 October 1929), published in Robert Oppenheimer : Letters and Recollections (1995) edited by Alice Kimball Smith, p. 135

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American theoretical physicist and professor of physics 1904–1967

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