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Dwight David Eisenhower
(14 Oct 1890 - 28 Mar 1969)
American president who was a five-star general in the U.S. Army (Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe during World War II) and became the 34th U.S. President, in office 1953-1961.
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Science Quotes by Dwight David Eisenhower (7 quotes)
As nuclear and other technological achievements continue to mount, the normal life span will continue to climb. The hourly productivity of the worker will increase.
— Dwight David Eisenhower
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I heard long ago in the Army: Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.
— Dwight David Eisenhower
From Speech (14 Nov 1957) to the National Defense Executive Reserve Conference, Washington, D.C., in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957 (1999), 818. Note that this is often seen attributed to Eisenhauer, without the introductory clause. Thus, it is not his original idea, though it may be his wording of it.
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
— Dwight David Eisenhower
Quoted in Richard Nixon, 'Krushchev', Six Crises (1962). As quoted and cited in Robert Andrews (ed.), The Columbia World of Quotations (1993), 688.
Love of liberty means the guarding of every resource that makes freedom possible—from the sanctity of our families and the wealth of our soil to the genius [of] our scientists…
— Dwight David Eisenhower
Inaugural Address, the first such address to be televised (20 Jan 1953). In William J. Federer, A Treasury of Presidential Quotations (2004), 300.
The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.
— Dwight David Eisenhower
Quoted in Kim Lim (ed.), 1,001 Pearls of Spiritual Wisdom: Words to Enrich, Inspire, and Guide Your Life (2014), 17
The United States pledges before you—and therefore before the world—its determination to help solve the fearful atomic dilemma—to devote its entire heart and mind to find the way by which the miraculous inventiveness of man shall not be dedicated to his death, but consecrated to his life.
— Dwight David Eisenhower
From address to the General Assembly of the United Nations (8 Dec 1953).
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.
— Dwight David Eisenhower
Farewell Address as U.S. President (1961). In Diane Ravitch, The American Reader (2000), 538.
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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