William Lanouette

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William Lanouette is a writer and policy analyst, as well as an expert on the Manhattan Project who has written extensively about the politics of nuclear weapons and power. He was the Washington Correspondent for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists before joining the U.S. General Accounting Office in 1991, from which he retired in 2006.

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“What we call disorder or chaos might actually be order, if order is seen as a random distribution and not as a static, idealized condition.”
William Lanouette, Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, the Man Behind the Bomb

“I believe that many children are born with an inquisitive mind, the mind of a scientist, and I assume that I became a scientist because in some ways I remained a child.”
William Lanouette, Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, the Man Behind the Bomb

“Your knowledge and wisdom determine who you are. In our society, there is a market for skills and knowledge. But I have some doubts if there is much of a market for wisdom.”
William Lanouette, Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, the Man Behind the Bomb

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