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Hyman G. Rickover
(27 Jan 1900 - 8 Jul 1986)
Polish-American naval officer.
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Science Quotes by Hyman G. Rickover (2 quotes)
Act as if you are going to live for ever and cast your plans way ahead. You must feel responsible without time limitations, and the consideration of whether you may or may not be around to see the results should never enter your thoughts.
— Hyman G. Rickover
In Theodore Rockwell, The Rickover Effect: How One Man Made A Difference (2002), 342.
It troubles me that we are so easily pressured by purveyors of technology into permitting so-called “progress” to alter our lives without attempting to control it—as if technology were an irrepressible force of nature to which we must meekly submit.
— Hyman G. Rickover
Quoted in The American Land (1979). In Barbara K. Rodes and Rice Odell, A Dictionary of Environmental Quotations (1992), 274.
See also:
- 27 Jan - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Rickover's birth.
- The Rickover Effect: How One Man Made A Difference, by Theodore Rockwell. - book suggestion.
- Booklist for Hyman Rickover.
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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