1.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: When I came to you with those calculations, we thought we might start a chain reaction that would destroy the entire world...
- Albert Einstein: I remember it well. What of it?
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: I believe we did.

2.
- Caption: Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to man. For this he was chained to a rock and tortured for eternity.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: 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.

3.
- Lewis Strauss: Amateurs seek the sun. Get eaten. Power stays in the shadows.

4.
- Leslie Groves: Are you saying that there's a chance that when we push that button... we destroy the world?
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: The chances are near zero...
- Leslie Groves: Near zero?
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: What do you want from theory alone?
- Leslie Groves: Zero would be nice!


5.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.

6.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: Since when are you British?
- Klaus Fuchs: Since Hitler told me I wasn't German.

7.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: I don't know if we can be trusted with such a weapon. But I know the Nazis can't.

8.
- Albert Einstein: 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

9.
- Kitty Oppenheimer: You don't get to commit sin, and then ask all of us to feel sorry for you when there are consequences.


10.
- Kitty Oppenheimer: You think because you let them tar and feather you that the world will forgive you? They won't.


11.
- Niels Bohr: Is it big enough?
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: To end the war?
Niels Bohr: To end all war.

12.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: [From the first trailer] We imagine a future, and our imaginings horrify us.

13.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: Mr. President. I feel that I have blood on my hands.
- Harry Truman: [tauntingly pulls out his pocket square and waves it in front of Oppenheimer] You think anyone in Hiroshima or Nagasaki gives a shit who built the bomb? They care who dropped it. I did. Hiroshima isn't about you.
- Harry Truman: [after Oppenheimer leaves] Don't let that crybaby back in here.


14.
- Niels Bohr: [From Trailer] You are the man who gave them the power to destroy themselves. And the world is not prepared.

15.
- Niels Bohr: 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.


16.
- Senate Aide: Is it possible they didn't talk about you at all. Is it possible they talked about something more important.

17.
- Edward Teller: Would the Japanese have surrendered if they knew what was coming?

18.
- Isidor Rabi: A prophet isn't allowed to be wrong. Not once.


19.
- Kitty Oppenheimer: The world is changing. Reforming. This is your moment.



20.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: Is anyone ever going to tell the truth about what's happening here?


21.
- Leslie Groves: What do we call the test?
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: Batter my heart, three-person'd God.
- Leslie Groves: What?
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: Trinity.


22.
- 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.


23.
- Edward Condon: Why would we move out to the middle of the desert for two to three years?
- Leslie Groves: Why? How about because this is the most important fucking thing to ever happen in the history of the world!


24.
- Kitty Oppenheimer: Sixteen years ago- seventeen years ago, my mistake.
[she pauses]
- Kitty Oppenheimer: Sorry, eighteen.

25.
- Isidor Rabi: 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.

26.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: They need us.
- Luis Alvarez: Until they don't.

27.
[Repeated line]
- Ernest Lawrence: Theory will take you only so far.

28.
- Lewis Strauss: The man who moved the Earth.

29.
- Jean Tatlock: At least you didn't bring me flowers.
- [Oppenheimer then reaches into his jacket, and pulls out a bunch of flowers]

30.
- Isidor Rabi: They need us for who we are, so be yourself... only better.


31.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: [At their first meeting] Are you married?
- Kitty Oppenheimer: Not very much.


32.
- Leslie Groves: A Nobel Prize for making a bomb?
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: Alfred Nobel invented dynamite.



33.
- Lewis Strauss: Genius is no guarantee of wisdom. How could this man who saw so much be so blind?


34.
- Albert Einstein: Robert, this is not mine, it's yours.

35.
- Haakon Chevalier: Do stars die?
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: Well, if they do, they'd cool, then collapse. In fact, the bigger the star, the more violent its demise. Their gravity gets so concentrated, it swallows everything.


36.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: Why would they care what I do?
- Ernest Lawrence: Because you're not just self-important, you're actually important.


37.
- Harry Truman: I hear you're leaving Los Alamos. What should we do with it?
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: Give it back to the Indians.


38.
- 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.

39.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: Well, in one hour and fifty eight minutes, we'll know!


40.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: Why limit yourself to one dogma?
- Jean Tatlock: You're a physicist. You pick and choose rules? Or do you use the discipline to channel your energies into progress?
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: I like a little wiggle room. You always tow the party line?
Jean Tatlock: I like my wiggle room, too.


41.
- Leslie Groves: And Robert? Try not to blow up the world.

42.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: I know what it means if the Nazis have a Bomb!

43.
- Kurt Gödel: Trees are the most inspiring structures.


44.
- Jean Tatlock: Don't alienate the only people in the world that understand what you do. One day you may need them.


45.
- Kitty Oppenheimer: Can you explain quantum mechanics to me?
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: Well, this glass, this drink, this counter top, uhh.. our bodies, all of it. It's mostly empty space. Groupings of tiny energy waves bound together.
- Kitty Oppenheimer: By what?
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: Forces of attraction strong enough to convince us
[that]
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: matter is solid, to stop my body passing through yours.
[gently places his palm against hers]



46.
- Kitty Oppenheimer: The truly vindictive are patient as saints.


47.
J. Robert Oppenheimer: A Pillar of Fire...


48.
Kitty Oppenheimer: All it needs is a saloon.


49.
J. Robert Oppenheimer: These things are hard on the heart.