Oppenheimer (I) (2023)
Kenneth Branagh: Niels Bohr
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Quotes
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Niels Bohr : Algebra's like sheet music, the important thing isn't can you read music, it's can you hear it. Can you hear the music, Robert?
J. Robert Oppenheimer : Yes, I can.
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Niels Bohr : The power you are about to reveal will forever outlive the Nazis, and the world is not prepared.
J. Robert Oppenheimer : You can't lift the stone without being ready for the snake that's revealed.
Niels Bohr : We have to make the politicians understand, this isn't a new weapon, it is a new world.
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Niels Bohr : [From Trailer] You are the man who gave them the power to destroy themselves. And the world is not prepared.
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Niels Bohr : We have to make the politicians understand this isn't a new weapon. It's a new world. I'll be out there doing what I can but you, you are an American Prometheus. The man who gave them the power to destroy themselves. And they'll respect that. And your works really begins soon.
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Niels Bohr : [Meeting Oppenheimer in Patrick Blackett's lab the morning after Bohr's lecture] You can lift the rock without being ready for the snake that's revealed.
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Niels Bohr : Heisenberg sought me out in Copenhagen. It was chilling, my old student working for the Nazis. He told me some things to draw me out. Sustained fission reactions in uranium.
Richard Tolman : That sounds more like a reactor than a bomb.
Edward Teller : Did he mention gaseous diffusion?
Niels Bohr : He seemed more focused on heavy water.
Edward Teller : As a moderator?
Niels Bohr : Yes, instead of graphite.
[the others celebrate]
Niels Bohr : What?
J. Robert Oppenheimer : He took a wrong turn! We're ahead.
