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Bernard Lovell
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“The successful launching of the Sputnik was a demonstration of one of the highest scientific and technological achievements of man—a tantalizing invitation both to the militarist in search of ever more devastating means of destruction and to the astronomer searching for new means of carrying his instruments away from their earthbound environment.”
Bernard Lovell (1913–2012) first seen 1958 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Astronomy Breaks Free", BBC Reith Lecture (9 November 1958) published in The Individual and the Universe (New York: Harper & Bros, 1959) ch. 1