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Bernard M(annes) Baruch
(18 Aug 1870 - 20 Jun 1965)
American financier and statesman who was much involved in public service and advised several US presidents, including service as a special adviser on war mobilization for World War II. In 1946, he headed the American delegation to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission, an international group established to find ways to control the use and proliferation of nuclear energy. In his time as elder statesman, he became known as 'the parkbench sage.'
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Science Quotes by Bernard M(annes) Baruch (9)
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
— Bernard M(annes) Baruch
From My Own Story (1957), 320.
Facts to [Herbert] Hoover's brain are as water to a sponge; they are absorbed into every tiny interstice.
— Bernard M(annes) Baruch
Quoted in David Hinshaw, Herbert Hoover: American Quaker (1950), 30.
I'm not smart. I try to observe. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked 'why.'
— Bernard M(annes) Baruch
Quoted in New York Post (24 Jun 1965). In Alfred J. Kolatch, Great Jewish Quotations (1996), 38-39.
See also: | Observation (85)
If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right. If you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.
— Bernard M(annes) Baruch
Quoted in The St. Louis Dispatch (21 Jun 1965). In Alfred J. Kolatch, Great Jewish Quotations (1996), 38.
In college I largely wasted my opportunities. My worst subjects were drawing and science. Almost my only memory of the chemistry class was of making some sulfuric acid into a foul-smelling concoction and dropping it into another student's pocket.
— Bernard M(annes) Baruch
From My Own Story (1957), 55.
Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human duty. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than physics.
— Bernard M(annes) Baruch
Speech to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (14 Jun 1946). In Alfred J. Kolatch, Great Jewish Quotations (1996), 39.
The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
— Bernard M(annes) Baruch
Speech to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (14 Jun 1946). In Alfred J. Kolatch, Great Jewish Quotations (1996), 39.
There are no such things as incurables; there are only things for which man has not found a cure.
— Bernard M(annes) Baruch
Address to the President's Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped (30 Apr 1954). In Alfred J. Kolatch, Great Jewish Quotations (1996), 38.
See also: | Cure (16)
To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
Commenting on his 85th birthday.
Commenting on his 85th birthday.
— Bernard M(annes) Baruch
Quoted in Newsweek (29 Aug 1955). In Alfred J. Kolatch, Great Jewish Quotations (1996), 38.
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