“There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for...” — J. Robert Oppenheimer Quote

“There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.”

“It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.”

“There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”

“Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.”

“I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.”

“Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.”

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”

“The Libertarian position on the freedom of speech is a strong support of freedom of speech, and we oppose government intervention in controlling what is or is not moral.”

“Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.”

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”

“Freedom is a human concept. We have these very romanticized, sentimentalized notions of freedom. And for species - monkeys and other creatures - freedom is a pretty risky, complex proposition that's not always for their benefit.”

“Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.”