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J. Robert Oppenheimer Quote: “Today, it is not only that our kings do not know mathematics, but our philosophers do not know mathematics and – to go a step further – our mathematicians do not know mathematics.”

51. “Today, it is not only that our kings do not know mathematics, but our philosophers do not know mathematics and – to go a step further – our mathematicians do not know mathematics.”

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

J. Robert Oppenheimer Quote: “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.”

52. “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

J. Robert Oppenheimer Quote: “We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy, error undetected will flourish and subvert.”

53. “We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy, error undetected will flourish and subvert.”

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

J. Robert Oppenheimer Quote: “Taken as a story of human achievement, and human blindness, the discoveries in the sciences are among the great epics.”

54. “Taken as a story of human achievement, and human blindness, the discoveries in the sciences are among the great epics.”

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

J. Robert Oppenheimer Quote: “Maybe General Groves was right. Maybe we should just banish thinking forever.”

55. “Maybe General Groves was right. Maybe we should just banish thinking forever.”

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

J. Robert Oppenheimer Quote: “It is proper to the role of the scientist that he not merely find new truth and communicate it to his fellows, but that he teach, that he try to bring the most honest and intelligible account of new knowledge to all who will try to learn.”

56. “It is proper to the role of the scientist that he not merely find new truth and communicate it to his fellows, but that he teach, that he try to bring the most honest and intelligible account of new knowledge to all who will try to learn.”

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

J. Robert Oppenheimer Quote: “When you see something technically sweet you go ahead and do it, and you argue about what to do about it, only after you have achieved success.”

57. “When you see something technically sweet you go ahead and do it, and you argue about what to do about it, only after you have achieved success.”

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

J. Robert Oppenheimer Quote: “All history teaches us that these questions that we think the pressing ones will be transmuted before they are answered, that they will be replaced by others, and that the very process of discovery will shatter the concepts that we today use to describe our puzzlement.”

58. “All history teaches us that these questions that we think the pressing ones will be transmuted before they are answered, that they will be replaced by others, and that the very process of discovery will shatter the concepts that we today use to describe our puzzlement.”

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

J. Robert Oppenheimer Quote: “I would urge the principle of self-limitation in regard to wealth,” and he made this “plea to the wealthy”: The first step to take, it they would set themselves right, is to live in the midst of superfluous wealth as if they were not the possessors of it; that is, to take for their own use only what they require for the essentials of a civilized life, and to regard the rest as a deposit for the general good, of which they themselves are not to be the beneficiaries.”

59. “I would urge the principle of self-limitation in regard to wealth,” and he made this “plea to the wealthy”: The first step to take, it they would set themselves right, is to live in the midst of superfluous wealth as if they were not the possessors of it; that is, to take for their own use only what they require for the essentials of a civilized life, and to regard the rest as a deposit for the general good, of which they themselves are not to be the beneficiaries.”

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

J. Robert Oppenheimer Quote: “Being wealthy might seem to be “supremely enviable,” he wrote, but “the business of wealth-getting, and of wealth-enjoyment, when viewed at close range, turns out to be a very different matter.”

60. “Being wealthy might seem to be “supremely enviable,” he wrote, but “the business of wealth-getting, and of wealth-enjoyment, when viewed at close range, turns out to be a very different matter.”

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

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