“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.”
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← J. Robert Oppenheimer timeline
“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.”
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