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Tag: J. Robert Oppenheimer

(1904-1967) an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics

Preserving freedom

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

Author Greg RavenPosted on November 10, 2021Categories libertyTags J. Robert Oppenheimer

The necessity of oversight

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.

Author Greg RavenPosted on January 14, 2013November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories informed electorateTags J. Robert Oppenheimer

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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