J. Robert Oppenheimer: “the wages of secrecy are corruption”
19 January 2023
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“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to enquire. We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.”
J. Robert Oppenheimer, in an address to the Science Talent Institute, March 6, 1950
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Dover Beach 
The biggest and most revered figures through history were people who went against the tide – Socrates, Christ, Buddha. They were not people who conformed to society’s expectations. If you conform, you will study, marry, produce children and die. That is the trajectory of life that society and your parents wish for you.