44 Years Later, US Navy Admiral Hyman Rickover’s Line on Human Experience Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History

44 Years Later, US Navy Admiral Hyman Rickover’s Line on Human Experience Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History

A Jewish immigrant from Poland whose family fled the pogroms for Chicago, Hyman Rickover reached Annapolis through his family's connection to Congressman Adolph J. Sabath and was hazed once he got there. He never joined the in-crowd, and he built the nuclear Navy as an outsider who treated the bureaucracy as the adversary. Ted Rockwell, his technical director for years, wrote the book on the method.