The Best Leslie Groves Quotes

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

Leslie: 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: Near zero?
J. Robert Oppenheimer: What do you want from theory alone?
Leslie: Zero would be nice!

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

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

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