Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Cassidy , David C. (2009-07-30), J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, Retrieved on 2012-06-09Source Material [books.google.com]
Memes
09 JUN 2012
Scientists Work on the Faith that Knowledge is a Good Thing
But when you come right down to it, the reason that we did this job is because it was an organic necessity. If you are a scientist you cannot stop such a thing. If you are a scientist you believe that it is good to find out how the world works; that it is good to find out what the realities are; that it is good to turn over to mankind at large the greatest possible power to control the world and to deal with it according to its lights and values.
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Quoting J. Robert Oppenheimer on the development of the atomic bomb.
