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Milton Eisenhower
(15 Sep 1899 - 2 May 1985)
American administrator Was the youngest brother, and closest confidant to President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Milton studied at the Kansas State Agricultural College, then worked for the federal government. After the Pearl Harbor attack, Milton led the War Relocation Authority, but resigned in protest of the unjust internment of Japanese Americans. He subsequently served as university president at three major institutions.
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Science Quotes by Milton Eisenhower (1 quote)
Modern man worships at the temple of science, but science tells him only what is possible, not what is right.
— Milton Eisenhower
As quoted in James C. Humes, Presidents and Their Pens: The Story of White House Speechwriters (2016), 93, citing James C. Humes, My Fellow Americans: Presidential Addresses That Shaped History (1992), 202. Humes, on the same page, added that for that reason, President Dwight Einsenhower in his farewell address (17 Jan 1961), warned that “public policy could be the captive of a scientific technological elite.”
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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