J. Robert Oppenheimer

In this 1954 talk, J. Robert Oppenheimer surmises that today's pressing questions "will be transmuted before they are answered" and that "the very process of discovery will shatter the concepts that we today use to describe our puzzlement."

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Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer discusses why scientific research belongs within the academic setting. He argues that the university provides the atmosphere needed for the scientist to have a supportive community and ...