Knowledge cannot be pursued without morality. Author: J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Quote More from J. Robert Oppenheimer “The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fear…” “When we deny the EVIL within ourselves, we dehumanize ourselves, and we deprive…” “Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” “It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not fo…”