Frases de Martin Ryle

Martin Ryle fue un astrónomo británico galardonado con el Premio Nobel de Física en 1974 junto con Antony Hewish, convirtiéndose en los primeros astrónomos en conseguirlo, por sus trabajos sobre radioastronomía y los púlsares. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. septiembre 1918 – 14. octubre 1984
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Martin Ryle: Frases en inglés

“Our cleverness has grown prodigiously - but not our wisdom.”

in a letter http://www.scribd.com/doc/5062627/Ryle to Professor Carlos Chagas, president of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, 24 February 1983.
Contexto: The benefits of medical research are real - but so are the potential horrors of genetic engineering and embryo manipulation. We devise heart transplants, but do little for the 15 million who die annually of malnutrition and related diseases. Our cleverness has grown prodigiously - but not our wisdom.

“The glorious years of discovery in radio astronomy in the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge were dominated by the personality of Martin Ryle.”

Geoffrey Burbidge http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/114263939/ABSTRACT?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0.