...3 EF Schumacher, op. cit., p. 76. 4 A. Sauvy, La fin des riches, Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1975, p. 19. the rockets are up, who cares where they come down...that's not my department, says Wernher von Braun." Fragmented social sciences can be counter-productive because they make us lose sight of mankind's development,...

...on top or everything else, as Tom Lehrer once noted in a slightly different context ("Once they go up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department. says Wernher von Braun") The solid benefits-massive supplies or cheap power Tor industry and water far irrigation that might...

...at ihr London School oj tcontimici SUPERDAMS The perils of progress by Claire Sterling Once they go up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department, says Wemher von Braun. —Tom Lehrer W; hat happens when we dam the flow of a great river and form an immense...

...indifference to larger goals was easily condemned, as in Tom Lehrer's immortal verse about physics research: " 'Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come...down? That's not my department,' says Wernher von Braun."95 For political studies, Theodore J. Lowi referred to 91. Heinz Eulau, "Segments of Political...

...and then for the USA. The US satirist Tom Lehrer (1981 , pp. 124-25) puts these words into his mouth: Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come...That's not my department, says Wernher von Braun. Other scientists — for example, Samuel Cohen, the so-called father of the neutron bomb — are known...

...implicit in this view was aptly summarized by Tom Lehrer in his song about the ethics of Werner von Braun: "Once the rockets are up who cares where they come down? "That's not my department.' said Werner von Braun." Developing such awesome technology carried with it uncomfortable responsibilities...

...there were no difference between things as they appear and things as they actually are. —KARL MARX Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come...down? "That's not my department," says Wernher von Eraun. — TOM LEHRER, 1965 n Catholicism without Christianity The value-neutrality celebrated by German...

...produces the knowledge and lets others use it. Tom Lehrer (1965) expressed this in one of his songs: Once the rockets are up Who cares where they come...down? That's not my department Says Wernher von Braun. At the opposite pole are the scientists who think of all knowledge as residing within themselves. The...

...implicit in this view was aptly summarized by Tom Lehrer in his song about the ethics of Werner von Braun: "Once the rockets are up who cares where they come down? 'That's not my department,' said Werner von Braun." Developing such awesome technology carried with it uncomfortable responsibilities...

...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...