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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
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
Age: 62 †
Born: 1904
Born: April 22
Died: 1967
Died: February 18
Art Collector
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Nuclear Physicist
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New York City
New York
Julius Robert Oppenheimer
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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
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Sometimes the answer to fear does not lie in trying to explain away the causes, sometimes the answer lies in courage.
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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.
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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
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Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.
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The people of this world must unite or they will perish.
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There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.
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If we ask, for instance, whether the position of the electron remains the same, we must say 'no' if we ask whether the electron's position changes with time, we must say 'no' if we ask whether the electron is at rest, we must say 'no' if we ask whether it is in motion, we must say 'no'.
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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.
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'It worked.' (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation).
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If we must live with a perpetual sense that the world and the men in it are greater than we and too much for us, let it be the measure of our virtue that we know this and seek no comfort.
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The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.
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Pragmatism is an intellectually safe but ultimately sterile philosophy.
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The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass and beyond there is a different country.
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I can't think that it would be terrible of me to say - and it is occasionally true - that I need physics more than friends.
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This is a world in which each of us, knowing his limitations, knowing the evils of superficiality and the terrors of fatigue, will have to cling to what is close to him, to what he knows, to what he can do. . .
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Truth, not a pet, is man's best friend.
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