"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."

Source : "Encouragement of Science". J. Robert Oppenheimer's address at Science Talent Institute (March 6, 1950), as quoted in "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists", Volume 7, No. 1 (pp. 6-8), January 1951.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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“If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience.”
“Whenever you hear the word "inevitable", watch out! An enemy of humanity has identified himself.”
“He grinned, though his face was strained. â€œThatâ€™s it, love. Use me to make yerself feel good.”
“The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.”

Source : "Aphorisms". Book by F. H. Bradley, No. 75, 1930.
“The round towers of the castles looked as if they were so firmly encrusted in the sky that, to get to their other side, one would have to hew out a passage through the celestial marble.”

Source : Hope Mirrlees (2012). “Lud-in-the-Mist”, p.62, F+W Media, Inc.
“Opinion-sharing sessions are like junk food: they fill you up with starch and leave you feeling both sated and hungry. A sustained inquiry into the truth of a matter is an almost athletic experience; it may exhaust you, but it also improves you.”

Source : Stanley Fish (2012). “Save the World on Your Own Time”, p.35, Oxford University Press
“I am committed to helping Alzheimer's Society in any way I can. My family and I rely on the help of organisations like Alzheimer's Society to help us understand the disease and guide us in the care of my grandmother. It's been a privilege to meet so many people with dementia.”
“Every Observer writer wants to be a novelist.”

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