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"The USA member would make his comprehensive forecast which, to some extent, would disclose what hope the meetings might have engendered or not discouraged. The head Russian meteorologist gave the Russian prognostication and B.F. the USA.
"Referring to B. Fuller’s prognostication which had received applause from both sides, the President of the USSR Academy of Sciences made the statement that, as a consequence of my prognostication and my domes and map that henceforth I would be ranked in the USSR with Edison and Franklin.
“Franklin was very much an operational man, first a baker and then a printer. Being involved with production in your early life is a very important kind of experience. And then he became interested in economics and homely philosophy. Anyone who is really involved in discovering principles which help other people determine how they should behave, whether Franklin or Mao, is seeking to find those generalized principles governing sociology, which even to this day has failed to discover any such laws ranking with those of science.”
