The experience of one's own country and of other countries, the experience of men and women, of cities and of the earth, is an experience which can only be had in freedom.
— Robert Oppenheimer Modern

Manhattan Project leader

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Address 'Science and the Common Understanding'

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1953

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Strange & Unusual

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https://www.ias.edu/oppenheimer/common-understanding

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