Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
2037
AUTHOR:
Dean Rusk (1909–94)
QUOTATION:
Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.
ATTRIBUTION:
DEAN RUSK, secretary of state, speech to the American Bar Association, Atlanta, Georgia, October 22, 1964, as reported by The Atlanta Constitution, October 23, 1964, p. 10.
