Thomas Francis Meagher Quotes
Great interests demand great safeguards.
Meagher, Thomas Francis. Speeches on the Legislative Independence of Ireland. Redfield, 1853.
Einstein was a very independent thinker. At the time many intellectuals were thinking that with modern psychology and sociology man could determine why criminals behaved in anti-social manners. However, Einstein was more concerned with the practical problems of protecting society. He was an opponent of the death penalty however. See {588604}.
In this particular case Griffin was referring to manned space flight, but the principle is a general one. Risk can be managed and in many cases minimized, but can never be eliminated completely unless virtually all activity ceases.
He was discussing the genetic atrocities, genocide and ethnic cleansing, and the murdering of scientists that had been justified by governments for national security reasons especially the murder of Russian geneticists by Stalin in Russia.
Thomas Francis Meagher was an Irish nationalist and leader of the Young Irelanders in the Rebellion of 1848. After being convicted of sedition, he was first sentenced to death, but received transportation for life to Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) in Australia.
