"As a guide to engineering ethics, I should like to commend to you a liberal adaptation of the injunction contained in the oath of Hippocrates that the professional man do nothing that will harm his client. Since engineering is a profession which affects the material basis of everyoneâs life, there is almost always an unconsulted third party involved in any contact between the engineer and those who employ him â and that is the country, the people as a whole. These, too, are the engineerâs clients, albeit involuntarily. Engineering ethics ought therefore to safeguard their interests most carefully. Knowing more about the public effects his work will have, the engineer ought to consider himself an âofficer of the courtâ and keep the general interest always in mind."
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Hyman G. Rickover in The Rickover Effect (1992) by Theodore Rockwell.
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