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Reith Revisited: Brian Cox on Robert Oppenheimer

The Reith Lectures

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Oppenheimer's Key Point

Oppenheimer quotes a man called bishop spratt who wrote back in the 16 hundreds, at the beginning of the formation of the ros ssity. He quotes him as speaking about what science requires and the way that science operates. And therefore we have his call for an open society, the idea of sharing information.

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