"C M Kornbluth - Gomez" - читать интересную книгу автора (Kornbluth C M)

"Well, Dr. Sugarman, I'd like to have your ideas on the really fundamental issues of atomic energy,
A-bomb control and so on. What in your opinion is the single most important factor in these problems?"

His eyes twinkled; he was going to surprise me. "Education!" he тАв said, and leaned back waiting for me
to register shock.

I registered. "That's certainly a different approach, doctor. How do you mean that, exactly?"

He said impressively: "Education-technical education-is the key to the underlying issues of our time. I am
deeply concerned over the unawareness of the general public to the meaning and accomplishments of
science. People underrate me-underrate science, that is -because they do not understand science. Let me
show you something." He rummaged for a moment through papers on his desk and handed me a sheet of
lined tablet paper covered with chicken-track handwriting. "A letter I got," he said. I squinted at the
penciled scrawl and read:



October 12 Esteemed Sir:

Beg to introduce self to you the atomic Scientist as a youth

17 working with diligence to perfect self in Mathematical

Physics. The knowledge of English is imperfect since am in

New-York 1 year only fromPuerto Ricoand due to Father and

Mother poverty must wash the dishes in the restaurant. So es

teemed sir excuse imperfect English which will better. "
for boron steel, compared with neutron cross-section absorption of



for any Concrete with which I familiarize myself. Whence arises relationship



I hesitate intruding your valuable Scientist time but hope you sometime spare minutes for diligents such as
I. My difficulty is with neutron cross-section absorption of boron steel in Reactor which theory I am
working out. Breeder reactors demand

indicating only a fourfold breeder gain. Intuitively I dissatisfy with this gain and beg to intrude your time
to ask wherein I neglect. With the most sincere thanks.

J. Gomez

% Porto Bello Lunchroom 124th St. & St. Nicholas Ave. New-York, New-York

I laughed and told Dr. Sugarman appreciatively: "That's a good one. I wish our cranks kept in touch with