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John R. Platt Quotes

d. 1992 United States

John Rader Platt (March 25, 1918 – June 17, 1992) was an American physicist and biophysicist at the University of Chicago.

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Physicists

Also known as: Platt, John R.

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The world has become too dangerous for anything less than utopias.

John R. Piatt (1969)

Going to the moon is not a matter of physics but of economics.

John R. Platt (1958)

The chemistry of genetics is primarily the chemistry and structure of the hereditary nucleic acid chains, DNA and RNA, and of the proteins whose structure they in turn control and the mechanism of this control.

John R. Platt (1965)

Jesus does not give us a discourse on the nature of the universe, he gives us a set of active verbs. And yet what better discourse on the real nature of the universe could there be? (p.178.)

Rex Robert Dolan (1967)

The man to watch, the man to put your money on, is not the man who wants to make "a survey" or a "more detailed study" but the man with the notebook, the man with the alternative hypotheses and the crucial experiments, the man who knows how to answer your Question of disproof and is already working on it.

John R. Platt (1964)

It is a curious thing that relatively little attention has been directed toward working out methods for keeping the peace in a disarmed world. The technological The technological developments of the last twenty years have made disarmament a major concern of most nations, for it has become apparent that war is no longer an effective means for settling disputes between the great powers.

Alexander Rich and John R. Platt (1966)

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