George E. Brown Jr. Quotes
Also by my earliest days, I was fascinated by a utopian vision of what the world could be like. I've thought that science could be the basis for a better world, and that's what I've been trying to do all these years.
Historically, this quotation seems like an endorsement of motherhood, but it was an extremely important statement at the time. Eisenhower was convinced to run for the Presidency as a Republican in order to stop Senator Robert Taft and the conservative, isolationist, right wing of the Republican Party. These Republicans opposed American support of the United Nations. Eisenhower won the Republican nomination, then the general election, and clearly announced to the country and the world, that the moderate wing of the Republican Party was in control and the United Nations was an important part of our foreign policy.
That was written in 1932. The benefits of man’s scientific and technical development had not reached all Americans or even most Americans. By the 1960s however these benefits were distributed to most Americans where the poor and middle class improved their share of the benefits of society both in terms of proportion and absolute improvement/ This increased till the Reagan administration and then slowed and really went backwards in the George W. Bush Administration.
The “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity”: Some 1,700 of the world's leading scientists, including the majority of Nobel laureates in the sciences, issued this appeal in November 1992.
George Edward Brown Jr. was an American politician. He was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1963 to 1971 and from 1973 until his death in Bethesda, Maryland, in 1999, representing Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Riverside counties in California.
