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Alfred Lee Loomis Quotes
18 quotes from Alfred Lee Loomis — Wall Street financier turned science patron who funded critical WWII research, including radar development at MIT's Rad….
“I felt obliged to strive for a kind of excellence that had nothing to do with the external trappings of success.”
“Science would soon become a dominating force.”
“I used my immense fortune to attract a gifted group of young physicists to my private laboratory.”
“I prepared the way for a series of scientific developments that would not only change the course of the war, but ultimately transform the modern world.”
“Can great science still be done at home?”
“If you're doing science, you're in the game.”
“I felt obliged to strive for a kind of excellence that had nothing to do with the external trappings of success.”
“Science would soon become a dominating force.”
“I used my immense fortune to attract a gifted group of young physicists to my private laboratory.”
“I prepared the way for a series of scientific developments that would not only change the course of the war, but ultimately transform the modern world.”
“Can great science still be done at home?”
“It is remarkable and remarkably told as if I live two almost completely opposite lives.”
“I had a knack of being able to learn everything there was to know about a subject, in a remarkably short time.”
“I sensed that the market was due a correction.”
“This same high-powered business executive may be seen hard at play... in a physics research laboratory!”
“This 'playtime research' also led to some of the newest marvels of discovery in physics and biology.”
“I contributed to brain research and sponsored countless other projects.”
“I became another crucial cog tasked with keeping science moving forward.”