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J Robert Oppenheimer Quotes

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We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert  (J Robert Oppenheimer Quotes) In a free world, if it is to remain free, we must maintain, with our lives if need be, but surely by our lives, the opportunity for a man to learn anything  (J Robert Oppenheimer Quotes) You can certainly destroy enough of humanity so that only the greatest act of faith can persuade you that what’s left will be human  (J Robert Oppenheimer Quotes) There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men  (J Robert Oppenheimer Quotes) To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly  (J Robert Oppenheimer Quotes) We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy, error undetected will flourish and subvert  (J Robert Oppenheimer Quotes) The powerful notion of entropy, which comes from a very special branch of physics … is certainly useful in the study of communication and quite helpful when applied in the theory of language  (J Robert Oppenheimer Quotes) Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries  (J Robert Oppenheimer Quotes) Taken as a story of human achievement, and human blindness, the discoveries in the sciences are among the great epics  (J Robert Oppenheimer Quotes) We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth  (J Robert Oppenheimer Quotes) When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb  (J Robert Oppenheimer Quotes) There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality  (J Robert Oppenheimer Quotes) Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)  (J Robert Oppenheimer Quotes) If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and Hiroshima. The people must unite, or they will perish  (J Robert Oppenheimer Quotes) There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors  (J Robert Oppenheimer Quotes) When all thermonuclear sources of energy are exhausted a sufficiently heavy star will collapse. Unless fission due to rotation, the radiation of mass, or the blowing off of mass by radiation, reduce the star’s mass to the order of that of the sun, this contraction will continue indefinitely  (J Robert Oppenheimer Quotes) It is not possible to be a scientist unless you believe that it is good to learn... that it is of the highest value to share your knowledge... with anyone who is interested... that the knowledge of the world, and the power which this gives, is a thing which is of intrinsic value to humanity  (J Robert Oppenheimer Quotes) Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.  (J Robert Oppenheimer Quotes) It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.  (J Robert Oppenheimer Quotes) You can certainly destroy enough of humanity so that only the greatest act of faith can persuade you that what’s left will be human.  (J Robert Oppenheimer Quotes) Taken as a story of human achievement, and human blindness, the discoveries in the sciences are among the great epics.  (J Robert Oppenheimer Quotes) It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them  (J Robert Oppenheimer Quotes) Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man  (J Robert Oppenheimer Quotes) To the confusion of our enemies  (J Robert Oppenheimer Quotes) The best way to send information is to wrap it up in a person  (J Robert Oppenheimer Quotes) The most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue  (J Robert Oppenheimer Quotes) I need physics more than friends  (J Robert Oppenheimer Quotes) Genius sees the answer before the question  (J Robert Oppenheimer Quotes) Truth, not a pet, is man’s best friend  (J Robert Oppenheimer Quotes) The people of this world must unite or they will perish  (J Robert Oppenheimer Quotes)
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