J. Robert Oppenheimer Quote

One thing science can do, and rarely does: it can correct the inherited views that it has by accident at another stage given to common sense, and which turn out to be not true.


The Growth of Science and the Structure of Culture, Daedalus, Winter 1958 (pp. 71-72)


One thing science can do, and rarely does: it can correct the inherited views that it has by accident at another stage given to common sense, and...

One thing science can do, and rarely does: it can correct the inherited views that it has by accident at another stage given to common sense, and...

One thing science can do, and rarely does: it can correct the inherited views that it has by accident at another stage given to common sense, and...

One thing science can do, and rarely does: it can correct the inherited views that it has by accident at another stage given to common sense, and...