"My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art." — J. Robert Oppenheimer

My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

In the spring of 1929, I returned to the United States. I was homesick for this country. I had learned in my student days a great deal about the new physics. I wanted to pursue this myself, to explain it, and to foster its cultivation.

I was born in New York in 1904.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.