experience seeing thought words ideas confined limitation experience o — J. Robert Oppenheimer, Flying Trapeze: Three Crises Physicists

J. Robert Oppenheimer The Flying Trapeze: Three Crises For Physicists

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The experience of seeing how our thought and our words and our ideas have been confined by the limitation of our experience is one which is salutary and is in a certain sense good for a man's morals as well as good for his pleasure. It seems to us [scientists] that this is an opening up of the human spirit , avoiding its provincialism and narrowness.

J. Robert Oppenheimer, The Flying Trapeze: Three Crises For Physicists

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