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• Bertrand Russell had given a talk on the then new quantum mechanics, of whose wonders he was most appreciative. He spoke hard…
• If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of…
• But when you come right down to it, the reason that we did this job is because it was an organic necessity.…
• The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of men for its furtherance-these are what may make…
• There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from…
• The best way to send information is to wrap it up in a person.
• Submit an agreement providing for the peaceful absorbtion of a celestial races in such a manner that our culture would remain intact…
• There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and…
• [About the great synthesis of atomic physics in the 1920s:] It was a heroic time. It was not the doing of any…
• There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and…
• It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that…
• Today, it is not only that our kings do not know mathematics, but our philosophers do not know mathematics and - to…

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