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Reith Revisited: Brian Cox on Robert Oppenheimer

The Reith Lectures

CHAPTER

Wreath Revisited - The Last Paragraph

The last paragraph is a powerful expression of this idea that human society is complicated and requires you to hold seemingly mutuale ideas in your head at the same time. He says, we, like all men, are among those who bring a little light to the vast, unending darkness of man's life and world. For us, as for all men, change and eternity. Both require and define our bonds and our freedom. So it's kind of a feedback, as it were. They're both necessary that they're necessary to enable progress, and they are thing that we should progress towards.

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