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Max W. Kraus
(2 Jan 1920 - 7 Jan 1998)
German-American government official and writer who held the rank of Captain in the U.S. Army. He became a U.S. Information Administration official whose posts included that of a U.S. spokesman at the Vietnamese peace talks in Paris and SALT II meetings in Geneva. After retirement, he started another career as a writer.
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Science Quotes by Max W. Kraus (1 quote)
[The 1957-1961 years of the U.S. space program] were the sad years in which the joke was that our countdowns ended in "Four, three, two, one, oh shit!"
— Max W. Kraus
In 'Vive l'Apollo', Space World (Mar 1985), No. 256, 4. Reprinted in They All Come to Geneva: And Other Tales of a Public Diplomat (1988), 82.

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.
(1987) --
Carl Sagan
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