BETHE: When you know Teller's critical assumptions, the real picture emerges. Bottom line? The chances of an uncontrolled nuclear reaction are near zero. Near zero. (breathes heavily) - Oppie, this is good news. - Mm.
Oppenheimer
8.7s
Can you run them again? No, you'll get the same answer. Till they actually detonate one of these things, the best assurance you're going to get is this. Near zero.
Oppenheimer
11s
You know, some days, Kurt refuses to eat. Even in Princeton. He's convinced that the Nazis can poison his food. Mm. Hmm? Huh.
Oppenheimer
6.5s
That would be treason. Yes, of course. I just thought you should know.
We're a couple of New York Jews. How do you know Dutch? Well, I thought I'd better learn it when I got here this semester. You learned enough Dutch in six weeks to give a lecture on quantum mechanics? Wanted to challenge myself. Quantum physics wasn't challenging enough. - Schvitzer. - Schvitzer? - Show-off. - (chuckles) Dutch in six weeks, but you never learned Yiddish? They don't speak it so much my side of the park. Screw you. You homesick? Oh, you know it.
Oppenheimer
12.4s
No, thank you. It's a long way to Zurich. You get any skinnier, we're gonna lose you between the seat cushions. I'm Rabi. Oppenheimer. I caught your lecture on molecules. Caught some of it.
Oppenheimer
9.2s
Ever get the feeling our kind isn't entirely welcome here? Physicists? 'S funny. Not in the department. They're all Jewish too.
Oppenheimer
5.2s
You know analysis? When I was in post-grad at Cambridge, I had a little trouble.
Oppenheimer
2.3s
There's a German you have to seek out.
Oppenheimer
2.7s
- Heisenberg. - Right.
Oppenheimer
2.8s
(speaking Dutch)
Oppenheimer
1.6s
(Rabi grunts)
Oppenheimer
2.7s
(door opens)
Oppenheimer
1.6s
Eat.
Oppenheimer
31.6s
- I'm Jean. - Robert. CHEVALIER: Haakon Chevalier. The union meeting at Serber's last month? Right, right, yes. Oh, thank you. CHEVALIER: Robert here says he's not a Communist. Well, then he doesn't know enough about it. Oh, I've read Das Kapital, all three volumes. Does that count? It would make you better read than most party members. Turgid stuff. There's some thinking, um, "Ownership is theft." - "Property." - "Property"? "Property," not "ownership." I'm sorry, I read it in the original German. CHEVALIER: (chuckles) Well.
Oppenheimer
26.5s
It's not about the book. It's about the ideas. And you sound uncommitted. Well, I'm committed to thinking freely about how to improve our world. Why limit yourself to one dogma? You're a physicist, you pick and choose rules? Or do you use the discipline to channel your energies into progress? I like a little wiggle room. Do you always tow the party line? I like my wiggle room too.