Lewis M. Branscomb Quotes

Lewis M. Branscomb is an American physicist, government policy advisor, and corporate research manager. He is best known as former head of the National Bureau of Standards and, later, chief scientist of IBM; and as a prolific writer on science policy issues. Wikipedia  

✵ 17. August 1926
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“Science has been the absolute bedrock of technological and economic progress in the United States.”

Branscomb (2012) in: " Scientist Lewis M. Branscomb Gives $1 Million Gift to Found New Center for Science and Democracy at UCS http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/scientist-lewis-branscomb-center-science-democracy-ucs-1385.html" at ucsusa.org/news, April 30, 2012

Lewis M. Branscomb Quotes

“The progress of science still depends on "a few people of vision."”

[Lewis M. Branscomb, Confessions of a technophile, Springer, 1997, 1563961180, 3]

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

Source: Confessions of a Technophile (1994), p. 42: Quote inspired on Branscomb's 1980 essay "God loves the noise"

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