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Message: <blockquote data-quote="imhotep" data-source="post: 28445757" data-attributes="member: 562115">They (Einstein & Oppenheimer) had differing views.  Einstein spent three winter semesters at Caltech. In a talk he gave to students there in 1931, he addressed the question of the scientist’s responsibility in society and concluded, “Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors … in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to all mankind.” His prophetic statement would come to haunt many scientists, including J. Robert Oppenheimer.Einstein kept away from the Manhattan Project. Also In July 1940, the U.S. Army Intelligence office denied Einstein the security clearance needed to work on the Manhattan Project. The hundreds of scientists on the project were forbidden from consulting with Einstein, because the left-leaning political activist was deemed a potential security risk.</blockquote>

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