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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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...

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

The most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue.

The most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue.

They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their...

They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their...

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the...

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the...