Oppenheimer (I) (2023)
Robert Downey Jr.: Lewis Strauss
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Quotes
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Lewis Strauss : Amateurs seek the sun. Get eaten. Power stays in the shadows.
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Lewis Strauss : Genius is no guarantee of wisdom. How could this man who saw so much be so blind?
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Lewis Strauss : He turned the scientists against me, one by one, starting with Einstein. I told you about that. Einstein. Einstein by the pond.
Senate Aide : You did, but you know, sir, since nobody... really knows what they said to each other that day, is it possible they didn't talk about you at all? Is it possible they spoke about something, uh... more important?
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Lewis Strauss : The man who moved the Earth.
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Lewis Strauss : Oppenheimer wanted to own the atomic bomb. He wanted to be the man who moved the Earth. He talks about putting the nuclear genie back in the bottle. Well I'm here to tell you that I *know* J. Robert Oppenheimer, and if he could do it all over, he'd do it all the same. You know he's never once said that he regrets Hiroshima? He'd do it all over. Why? Because it made him the most important man who ever lived.
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Lewis Strauss : [Speaking about Albert Einstein] You know, I've always wondered why you didn't involve him in the Manhattan Project. Greatest scientific mind of our time.
J. Robert Oppenheimer : [Sharply] Of his time.
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J. Robert Oppenheimer : [Speaking at his first visit to the Institute of Advanced Studies] Mr. Strauss, there are things in my past you'll be aware of.
Lewis Strauss : Well, as chairman of the ADC, I have access to your security file at Los Alamos.
J. Robert Oppenheimer : You're not worried?
Lewis Strauss : Why would I be worried after everything you've done for your country?
J. Robert Oppenheimer : Well, the time has changed, Mr. Strauss.
