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

Quote by J Robert Oppenheimer

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There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma...

There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma...

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it...

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it...

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up...

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up...

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous...

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous...

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

It worked. (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation).

It worked. (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation).

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist...

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist...

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous...

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous...

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge...

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge...

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to...

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to...

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems...

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems...

The most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue.

The most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up...

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up...

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite...

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite...

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and...

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and...

I was made to work. If you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful

I was made to work. If you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being,...

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being,...

If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your...

If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your...