“The Trouble with Secrecy is That it Doesn’t Give the Public a Sense of Participation.”
The trouble with secrecy isn’t that it inhibits science. It could but in this country it’s hardly been used that way.
The trouble with secrecy is that it doesn’t give the public a sense of participation.
The trouble with secrecy is that it denies to the government itself the wisdom and the resources of the whole community and of the whole country.
The only way around this is to let almost anyone say what he thinks.
I really like this quote and so far as I know I’m the first person who ever actually took the time to type it out. I got it from a TV interview of Oppenheimer conducted by Edward R. Murrow. If you’d like to see it in its entirety here’s the link:
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