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Henry H. Arnold
(25 Jun 2886 - 15 Jan 1950)
American military officer who was a five-star General of the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II He founded the RAND Corporation, a non-profit global policy think tank.
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Science Quotes by Henry H. Arnold (1 quote)
The technical genius which could find answers … was not cooped up in military or civilian bureaucracy, but was to be found in universities and in the people at large.
— Henry H. Arnold
Quoted by Theodore von Karman, The Wind and Beyond: Theodore von Karman, Pioneer in Aviation and Pathfinder in Science (1967), 268. As cited in Office of Air Force History, Harnessing the Genie: Science and Technology Forecasting for the Air Force 1944-1986 (1988), 186.
Arnold was expressing the value of a balance between independent and government science.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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