Tuesday, 1 August 2023
Knowable
"It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them."
J. Robert Oppenheimer, theoretical physicist, speech in McMaster university, Canada, 1962.
Found in City of the End of Things: Lectures on Civilization and Empire, by Pr. Jonathan Hart (2009)
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