They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community.
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Type: Mathematician Born: May 19, 1927 Death: September 12, 2005 |
“You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”
“Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you work at it and you wind up with a 200,000 word novel. We, picture-book people, or at least I, start out with 200,000 words and I reduce it to 20.”