Government and Science: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Development of the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U. S. House of Representatives, Eighty-eighth Congress, First SessionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1964 - 477 pages Committee Serial No. 8. Reviews national priorities in applied and basic research, educational and manpower needs, and impact of Federal research policy and support on private industry, universities, foundations, and government agencies. |
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Page 194 - Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It is a great pleasure for me to appear...
Page 95 - He who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is the benefactor of mankind ; but he who obscurely worked to find the laws of such growth is the intellectual superior as well as the greater benefactor of the two.
Page 229 - Most funds now spent on research are channeled to private contractors through the Department of Defense, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Atomic Energy Commission.
Page 302 - Government is doing something else, and it illustrates unhappily to us in this case, the force of the injunction not to let the left hand know what the right hand is doing, which does not work so well all of the time in governmental affairs.
Page 471 - Development" is the systematic use of scientific knowledge directed toward the production of useful materials, devices, systems, or methods, including design and development of prototypes and processes.
Page 426 - The most effective utilization of the scientific and engineering resources of the United States, with close cooperation among all interested agencies of the United States in order to avoid unnecessary duplication of effort, facilities, and equipment...
Page 388 - Several agencies including the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Atomic Energy Commission, and the US Office of Education support fellowship programs for graduate students.
Page 239 - ... to foster the interchange of scientific information among scientists in the United States and foreign countries...
Page 90 - Mr. Chairman, members of the committee: I am grateful for the opportunity to discuss with you today the SALT agreements and their interrelationship to our strategic force posture.
Page 239 - Service, shall (1) provide, or arrange for the provision of, indexing, abstracting? translating, and other services leading to a more effective dissemination of scientific information, and (2) undertake programs to develop new or improved methods, including mechanized systems, for making scientific information available.