Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy: Hearing Before the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, Congress of the United States, Eighty-seventh Congress, Second Session ... April 10, 1962

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1962 - 148 Seiten
Includes testimony of Hyman Rickover before the House Committee on Appropriations on August 18, 1959 (p. 38-121).

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Seite 4 - It is impossible to imagine the height to which may be carried, in a thousand years, the power of man over matter. We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity, and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport. Agriculture may diminish its labor and double its produce; all diseases may by sure means be prevented or cured, not excepting even that of old age, and our lives lengthened at pleasure even beyond the antediluvian standard.
Seite 100 - ... a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure, for a limited period, or during good behavior.
Seite 1 - Well, in our country," said Alice, still panting a little, "you'd generally get to somewhere else— if you ran very fast for a long time as we've been doing." "A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that.
Seite 102 - Never did people believe anything more firmly than nine Englishmen out of ten at the present day believe that our greatness and welfare are proved by our being so very rich.
Seite 113 - Tis education forms the common mind ; Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Seite 84 - ... their mental habits, these officers resembled technicians. As I see it, a professional person differs from a technician by reason of his broad general education, his mastery of a specific area of higher learning and his ability to apply this specialized knowledge to practical problems. He applies to his work a broad base of knowledge and a habit of independent and logical thought. He sees the problems he meets in his work in their proper setting and solves them by applying his professional and...
Seite 112 - As I was born a citizen of a free State, and a member of the Sovereign, I feel that, however feeble the influence my voice can have on public affairs, the right of voting on them makes it my duty to study them...
Seite 4 - We may, perhaps, learn to deprive large masses of their gravity, and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport. Agriculture may diminish its labor and double its produce ; all diseases may by sure means be prevented or cured, not excepting even that of old age, and our lives lengthened at pleasure even beyond the antediluvian standard. O that moral science were in as fair a way of improvement! that men would cease to be wolves to one another, and that human beings would at length...
Seite 3 - ... Mississippi and its waters secure an independent outlet for the produce of the western States, and an uncontrolled navigation through their whole course, free from collision with other powers and the dangers to our peace from that source, the fertility of the country, its climate and extent, promise in due season important aids to our treasury, an ample provision for our posterity, and a wide-spread field for the blessings of freedom and equal laws.
Seite 100 - APPENDIX 3 (This speech reflects the views of the author and does not necessarily reflect the views of the Secretary of the Navy or the Department of the Navy.) THE NEVER-ENDING CHAIXENGE (By Vice Adm.

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