Martin Ryle Quotes

1918–1984 England

Sir Martin Ryle (27 September 1918 – 14 October 1984) was an English radio astronomer who developed revolutionary radio telescope systems (see e.g. aperture synthesis) and used them for accurate location and imaging of weak radio sources. In 1946 Ryle and Derek Vonberg were the first people to publish interferometric astronomical measurements at radio wavelengths.

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Nobel laureates
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Our cleverness has grown prodigiously - but not our wisdom.

We must put our energies into solving the difficult problems, in many disciplines, which are involved in renewable sources - on which both the developed and the developing countries must eventually depend.

p 500 of Electronics and Power (1982)

If we are to survive, we must not accept the official indoctrination of the purpose of nuclear 'power' stations, radiation health risks, the 'need' for further nuclear weapons and the reality of nuclear war.

p 29 of Towards the Nuclear Holocaust (1980)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Martin Ryle (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.