"Our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter...will travel effortlessly over the seas and under them and through the air with a minimum of danger and at great speeds, and will experience a lifespan far longer than ours, as disease yields and man comes to understand what causes him to age."

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Source: Lewis Madison Terman (1919). “The Intelligence of School Children: How Children Differ in Ability, the Use of Mental Tests in School Grading and the Proper Education of Exceptional Children”

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Lewis Strauss

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Lewis Strauss was a prominent American businessman and public servant known for his influential role in nuclear policy and leadership in the Atomic Energy Commission.

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