Alfred Lee Loomis Quotes
19 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.”
“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.”
“A palace of science.”
“Since the stations themselves would be about a thousand miles apart, there was a problem of synchronization. He proposed solving it using his specialty — in this case highly accurate quartz clocks — at each station.”
“If Alfred Loomis had not existed, radar development would have been retarded greatly, at an enormous cost in American lives. He used his wealth very effectively. He exercised his tact and diplomacy to overcome all obstacles. He steers a mathematically straight course and succeeds in having his own way by force of logic and of being right.”
“Alfred Loomis may well be remembered as the last of the great amateurs of science. He had distinguished careers as a lawyer, as an Army officer, and as an investment banker before he turned his full energies to the pursuit of scientific knowledge. By any measure that can be employed, he was one of the most influential physical scientists of this century.”
“He was just the best man you ever met.”
“In his varied interests, his powers of invention, and his services to his fellow man, Mr. Loomis is the twentieth-century Benjamin Franklin.”
