J Robert OPPENHEIMER on his HOPES FOR SCIENCE | BBC Archive
Summary
The speaker expresses hope that the next 10 years will bring a growing effort to transform the world and international relations. This transformation is aimed at mitigating the dangers of modern warfare and re-knitting human culture by integrating scientific insights about nature into intellectual and spiritual life.
Key points- The speaker hopes for a growing effort over the next 10 years to transform the world and relations between states.
- This transformation is intended to address the unprecedented dangers of modern warfare.
- There is a particular hope for this effort in the West, and especially in America.
- The goal is to re-knit human culture and bring the insights of science about the natural world into relevance for intellectual and spiritual life.
Chapters
Notable quotes (4)
“transform the world”
“unprecedented dangers”
“begin to re-knit”
“Wonder of the World of Nature as science has revealed it”
0:00I hope that these 10 years will see a growing effort transform the world and the relations between states and their functions to exorcise the unprecedented dangers of Modern Warfare I hope that these 10 years especially in the west perhaps most especially where we need it so much in in America in my country that we will begin to re-knit human culture and bring the insight and the Wonder of the World of Nature as science has revealed it into relevance and meaning for the intellectual life the spiritual life of man
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