...facilities smacks of Tom Lehrer's unforgettable ditty on a well-known rocket scientist: When the missiles go up, who cares where they come down That's not my department, says Werner von Braun. A PARTNERSHIP RESTORED f Having devoted so much space to worrying about matters that...

...me as a bit disingenuous and immediately calls to mind the old Tom Lehrer song: "Once the rockets go up / Who cares where they come down? / That's not my department / Says Wernher von Braun." Few, if any, modern scientists work in a technological vaccuum; even "pure research" in educational...

...do with Planck or his Nobel prize, the designer has obviously followed the Tom Lehrer lyric: 'Once rockets are up, who cares where they come down, that's not my department, says Werner von Braun'. To conclude -4!аЦ£ЩЦК-В±CIHPmfMiflOtUlf BE UCCiUTtBI t gjllllll 116 117...

...Tom Lehrer sang of NASA's man: "Don't say that he is hypocritical, say rather that he is apolitical, 'Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come...that's not my department,' says Wernher von Braun.") Engel, an SS officer, was stationed in Strasbourg, France before being posted to Peenemunde. His Nazi...

...worked on rockets for the United States, as he had done for Hitler. As one satirical songwriter put it: Once the rockets are up, Who cares where they come down? That's not our department, Says Werner von Braun. The scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project were not...

...Lehrer, the professorballadeer, in his sardonic lyrics about Hitler's pioneering missile designer: "Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come...That's not my department," says Wernher von Braun. The tandem difficulties of understanding science and attempting to foresee its social consequences...

...Hindus hate the Moslems / And everybody hates the Jews"), the ex-Nazi rocket scientist Wernher von Braun ("'Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come...That's not my department,' says Wernher von Braun"), and much else. He praised smut. He wrote antimilitary songs, including "So Long, Mom," a preparatory...

...self-deception (at the very least). Tom Lehrer made the point in a witty lyric: "When the rockets go up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department," says Werner von Braun. Pure researchers, then, are not simply those whose intentions are entirely to promote...

...they might be put to in war in the meantime. In the words of a Tom Lehrer song, "If the rockets go up, Who cares where they come down? That's not my department, Says Werner von Braun." Surely one cannot understand this without recognizing that sense of awe and wonder...

...take refuge in the division of labor proposed by Tom Lehrer's brilliant song: "When the rockets go up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department," says Werner von Braun. Many workers in contemporary human genetics, including the genetics of behavioral...