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Don (Krasher) Price
(23 Jan 1910 - 9 Jul 1995)
American political scientist was a Harvard professor and dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government (1958-77) who wrote books on U.S. history and government. He devoted much of his career to promoting the role of science in the American Government. While he worked at the Bureau of the Budget (1945-46), he helped draft the legislation establishing both the Atomic Energy Commission and the National Science Foundation. In 1965 he was chosen to head the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, one of the few social scientists to gain this post, and became its president in 1967.
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Science Quotes by Don (Krasher) Price (2)
Scientists who dislike constraints on research like to remark that a truly great research worker needs only three pieces of equipment: a pencil, a pieve of paper and a brain. But they quote this maxim more often at academic banquets than at budget hearings.
— Don (Krasher) Price
In Dr. N Sreedharan, Quotations of Wit and Wisdom (2007), 68.
The union of the political and scientific estates is not like a partnership, but a marriage. It will not be improved if the two become like each other, but only if they respect each other's quite different needs and purposes. No great harm is done if in the meantime they quarrel a bit.
— Don (Krasher) Price
The Scientific Estate (1965), 71.
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