Origine: Structures (or, Why Things Don't Fall Down) (1978), Chapter 15, A Chapter of accidents
Contesto: In the course of a long professional life spent, or misspent, in the study of the strengths of materials and structures, I have had cause to examine a lot of accidents, many of them fatal. I have been forced to the conclusion that very few accidents just "happen" in a morally neutral way. Nine out of ten accidents are caused, not by more or less abstruse technical effects, but by old-fashioned human sin — often verging on plain wickedness. Of course I do not mean the more gilded and juicy sins like deliberate murder, large-scale fraud, or Sex. It is squalid sins like carelessness, idleness, won't-learn-and-don't-need-to-ask, you-can't-tell-me-anything-about-my-job, pride, jealousy and greed that kill people.
James Edward Gordon: Frasi in inglese
“The real reason for the disaster was, however, pride and jealousy and political ambition.”
Origine: Structures (or, Why Things Don't Fall Down) (1978), Chapter 15, A Chapter of accidents
Contesto: The immediate technical cause of was the tearing of the fabric of the outer envelope; this fabric had apparently been embrittled by improper doping treatment. The real reason for the disaster was, however, pride and jealousy and political ambition.
Appendix 1, Handbooks and formulae
Structures (or, Why Things Don't Fall Down) (1978)
Origine: Structures (or, Why Things Don't Fall Down) (1978), Chapter 15, A Chapter of accidents
“It is is confidence which causes accidents and worry which prevents them.”
Appendix 1, Handbooks and formulae
Structures (or, Why Things Don't Fall Down) (1978)
Origine: Structures (or, Why Things Don't Fall Down) (1978), Chapter 15, A Chapter of accidents
Origine: The New Science of Strong Materials (or, Why You Don't Fall Through the Floor) (1976), Chapter 7, Glue and Plywood (or, Mice in the gliders)
