J. Robert Oppenheimer Quote

We cannot in any sense be both the observers and the actors in any specific instance, or we shall fail properly to be either one or the other; yet we know that our life is built of these two modes, is part free and part inevitable, is part creation and part discipline, is part acceptance and part effort.


Science and the Common Understanding, Chapter 6 (p. 88)


We cannot in any sense be both the observers and the actors in any specific instance, or we shall fail properly to be either one or the other; yet we ...

We cannot in any sense be both the observers and the actors in any specific instance, or we shall fail properly to be either one or the other; yet we ...

We cannot in any sense be both the observers and the actors in any specific instance, or we shall fail properly to be either one or the other; yet we ...

We cannot in any sense be both the observers and the actors in any specific instance, or we shall fail properly to be either one or the other; yet we ...