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Pragmatism is an intellectually safe but ultimately sterile philosophy.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
Age: 62 †
Born: 1904
Born: April 22
Died: 1967
Died: February 18
Art Collector
Engineer
Nuclear Physicist
Theoretical Physicist
University Teacher
New York City
New York
Julius Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Philosophy
Pragmatism
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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
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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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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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
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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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The most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue.
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There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality.
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In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
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To the confusion of our enemies.
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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
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The physicists have known sin and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
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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.
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The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change the greatest novelty the extent of novelty.
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The people of this world must unite or they will perish.
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Things which stimulate my curiosity are pretty far removed from the practical and therefore from classification.
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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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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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I think that all things which evoke discipline: study, and our duties to men and to the commonwealth, war, and personal hardship, and even the need for subsistence, ought to be greeted by us with profound gratitude, for only through them can we attain to the least detachment and only so can we know peace.
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Truth, not a pet, is man's best friend.
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