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“Shortly after taking office in 1993, President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore called for a shift in American technology policy toward an expansion of public investments in partnerships with private industry.”

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Lewis M. Branscomb

Physicist born on August 17, 1926, known for his research in quantum mechanics and solid-state physics. more

“Scientists are used to debating with one another about the finer points of new research. But increasingly, they find themselves battling their televisions and computer screens, which transmit ever-more-heated rhetoric from politicians, pundits, and other public figures who misinterpret, misrepresent, and malign scientific results.”

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Author:Lewis M. Branscomb

“Science has been the absolute bedrock of technological and economic progress in the United States.”

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Author:Lewis M. Branscomb

“Teachers of science in schools and colleges must be masters of the tools for ensuring integrity in science and must instill them in their students.”

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Book:Confessions of a Technophile

Source: Confessions of a Technophile

“We must understand that the fact of error, demonstrated in subsequent work, does not suggest that ethical lapses are responsible. It is more likely that the source of error is, as the advertisement says, a reflection of the fact that "its dangerous to trifle with Mother Nature".”

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Author:Lewis M. Branscomb

“God loves the noise as much as the signal.”

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Book:Confessions of a Technophile

Source: Confessions of a Technophile

“In the course of waging that war, the people of Canada had shown that it was possible for them to maintain nearly a million men in uniform and at the same time expand all the facilities for production within Canada at an unprecedented speed, including building industries which had never existed in Canada before... and by and large the cost of production in Canada compared favourable with the cost of production anywhere else among the Allies... All of this was accomplished without any foreign investment, without and foreign loans... We were quite capable of self-development.”

“Canada's ruling circles seek to ally themselves more closely with American imperialism without giving up the economic advantages of membership in the British Empire.”

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Author:Tim Buck

“For a time I gave the appearance of defending Stalin. I didn't defend what he had done; the fact is, nobody could defend the things that Khrushchev revealed.”

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Author:Tim Buck

“The key to the defeat and eventually the end of imperialism as a a whole is the unity of all socialist countries and progressive forces in capitalist countries.”

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Author:Tim Buck

“The Communist Party must be a revolutionary party our it will cease to be a Communist Party.”

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Author:Tim Buck

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