Thursday, April 07, 2011
Fermilab Makes Major Find: Shuts Down in September
This:
Fermilab Makes Major Find: Shuts Down Sept.
Reminded me of this:
Robert R. Wilson
In 1969, Wilson was called to justify the multimillion-dollar machine to the Congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. Bucking the trend of the day, Wilson emphasized it had nothing at all to do with national security, rather:
Fermilab Makes Major Find: Shuts Down Sept.
Reminded me of this:
Robert R. Wilson
In 1969, Wilson was called to justify the multimillion-dollar machine to the Congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. Bucking the trend of the day, Wilson emphasized it had nothing at all to do with national security, rather:
It has only to do with the respect with which we regard one another, the dignity of men, our love of culture. It has to do with: Are we good painters, good sculptors, great poets? I mean all the things we really venerate in our country and are patriotic about. It has nothing to do directly with defending our country except to make it worth defending.
