The ghosts that exert the most power in people__ lives-at least, the people I know__end to be of their own making, and consist of equal parts regret and old fears and just plain missing somebody.
Oppenheimer was lamenting the subservience of science to innate human cruelty in an address to the American Philosophical Society: __e have made a thing, a most terrible weapon, that has altered abruptly and profoundly the nature of the world ... a thing that by all the standards of the world we grew up in is an evil thing. And by so doing ... we have raised again the question of whether science is good for man._ This public admission of personal despair at the moral collapse of the modern world__ leading intellectual enterprise could not be more nakedly penitent.
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Oppenheimer was lamenting the subservience of science to innate human cruelty in an address to the American Philosophical Society: __e have made a thing, a most terrible weapon, that has altered abruptly and profoundly the nature of the world ... a thing that by all the standards of the world we grew up in is an evil thing. And by so doing ... we have raised again the question of whether science is good for man._ This public admission of personal despair at the moral collapse of the modern world__ leading intellectual enterprise could not be more nakedly penitent.
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