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“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”
J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–67) was a theoretical physicist best known for leading the Manhattan Project at the Los Alamos Laboratory, which created the first atomic bomb. He was a respected professor of physics at UC Berkeley and Caltech, directed the Institute for Advanced Study, and served as Chairman of the General Advisory Committee at the Atomic Energy Commission, opposing the creation of a hydrogen bomb.
