J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Knowledge, Science, Reality

  J. Robert Oppenheimer (1947). “Physics in the Contemporary World”

• 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.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Jobs, Believe, Science

  J. Robert Oppenheimer's speech to the Association of Los Alamos Scientists in Los Alamos, New Mexico, www.atomicarchive.com. November 2, 1945.

• A pragmatist is concerned with results, not reality.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Reality, Results, Pragmatists

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