George Cowan Quotes

United States, Chemist
February 15, 1920 – April, 20, 2012.

George A. Cowan was an American physical chemist, a businessman and philanthropist. He conducted early research in the Manhattan Project. George served 39 years at Los Alamos National Laboratory as director of chemistry, associate director of research and senior laboratory fellow.

In the design of fission reactors man was not an innovator but an unwitting imitator of nature.

George Cowan
Somehow, the agenda has been put into the form of talking about a set of transitions from state A, the present, to a state B that's sustainable. The problem is that there is no such state. You have to assume that the transitions are going to continue forever and ever and ever. You have to talk about systems that are continuously dynamic, and that are embedded in environments that themselves are continuously dynamic.

George Cowan