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Thomas Farrell
(3 Dec 1891 - 11 Apr 1967)
[n] who was was the Deputy Commanding General and Chief of Field Operations of the Manhattan Project, which during World War II developed the atomic bomb. Late in his life, he worked (1960-1964) on the preparations for the 1964 New York World’s Fair.
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Science Quotes by Thomas Farrell (1 quote)
Thirty seconds after the explosion came, first the air blast pressing hard against people and things, to be followed almost immediately by the strong, sustained awesome roar which warned of doomsday and made us feel that we puny things were blasphemous to dare tamper with the forces heretofore reserved to the Almighty.
— Thomas Farrell
official report on the first atom bomb test, Alamogordo, New Mexico, July 16, 1945 [See Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge and J. Robert Oppenheimer].
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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