America Quote by David Oshinsky

The McCarthy period came along...and many of the other scientists who had been working on these same lines gave up. Probably saying "Why should…

— Linus Pauling

The Cern laboratory in Geneva was set up in 1955 to bring together European scientists who wished to pursue research into the nuclear and…

— Martin Rees

“During the early 1950s the hangman operating with the cold war troops was McCarthyism. For years it decimated social organizations, throttled free expression, and…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“The Soviets, knowing that the Americans would permit the German scientists to leave if they wished to, attempted to take advantage of the much…

— Charles River Editors

Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him…

— Ann Druyan

I am aware that those hateful persons called Original Researchers now maintain that Raleigh was not the man; but to them I turn a…

— James M. Barrie

“Like the victims of the historical Inquisition and its other modern equivalents, the men and women who were targeted during the McCarthy era were…

— Jonathan Kirsch

“They all knew the dangers back then. They had some really good scientists and chemists. But you didn’t have the regulations,”

— Jane Mayer

Gov. Christie says 'New Jersey First.' State-based Isolationism!

— Anonymous

“Allison gave the reporters something more stirring to write about. “Scientist Drops A-Bomb: Blasts Army Shackles,” the Chicago Tribune reported about his remarks. “We…

— William Lanouette

“Leeuwenhoek, Erwin, Woese, and others were at the fringes of their respective fields, the frontiers, to be generous. The same might be said to…

— Rob Dunn

I started the nuclear medicine laboratory at UW Hospitals in 1959 and trained radiology residents in the field. It was 1965 before they found…

— John Cameron