"The wolves are coming out of the walls." (310)

Jun 07, 2023 16:33

Overcast much of the day. The high was 90F.

I was up at 6, and I did another 1,017 words on "The Moment Under the Moment (1994)." Later, I worked on Winifred.

Unremarkable day.

Late last night, unable to sleep, I watched Clark Gable in 1949's Command Decision, directed by Sam Wood. A very good war film, based on William Wister Haines' 1947 novel of the same name. And speaking of film, I'm so excited right now about Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer it's hard to think about any other film (based on Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin's 2006 Pulitzer Prize winning biography, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer).

There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry … There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors. Our political life is also predicated on openness. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it and that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. And we know that as long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost, and science can never regress. ~ J. Robert Oppenheimer (24 October 1949)

Anyway, please have a look at the Dreaming Squid Sundries shop. Thank you kindly.

Later Tater Beans,
Aunt Beast



11:12 a.m.

* Thanks to Bill Landrex and Neil for the title of this entry.

christopher nolan, good movies, wwii, 1994, oppenheimer, 2006, academic freedom, clarke gable, biology, the moment under the moment, 1949, science, free speech, mosasaurs, 1947, censorship

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