“Fermi turned to Bohr with weary eyes and a slanted smile, and shrugged. “So we thought we had discovered new elements. We even named them—hesperium, ausonium. Wrong! Mythical! They were ordinary old barium and iodine. We were careful—too careful.” — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
“They thought the Allies would be desperate to “buy” their reactor research in the postwar era. Apparently they were not moved to check to… — Gregory Benford Copy Share
“The war had funneled men and women into familiar channels. Anton’s girls were performing their impressions of what girls were supposed to be like.” — Gregory Benford Copy Share
“Ah, I see your point. I did assist on the Okinawa drop, as the British representative. Quite simple, after we’d seen the Berlin effects.… — Gregory Benford Copy Share
“Dawidoff, Nicholas. The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg. New York: Vintage, 1994. de” — Gregory Benford Copy Share
Everybody feels he has a right to a life of luxury - or at least comfort - so there's a lot of frustration and… — Gregory Benford Copy Share
“In fact, it took the resources of three countries to produce the bomb: the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. But there was more… — Gregory Benford Copy Share
“All our bright minds,” Feynman said sardonically, “and we can’t figure how to stop the enemy from dumping dirt on us.” Freeman said with… — Gregory Benford Copy Share
“Moe Berg. Until he’s finished reading a paper, he considers it ‘alive’ and refuses to let anyone else touch it. When he’s done, it’s… — Gregory Benford Copy Share
“Tests showed there was no enrichment. “They’re just slinging purified uranium at us, straight from the mines,” Bob said. But the next week Bob… — Gregory Benford Copy Share
One of the laws of nature," Gordon said, "is that half the people have got to be below average.""For a Gaussian distribution, yeah," Cooper… — Gregory Benford Copy Share
“I knew personally many figures in this novel: Harold Urey, who greeted me at the grad students reception at UCSD in 1963; Karl Cohen,… — Gregory Benford Copy Share
“Right. Isn’t that how science works?” Redwing grinned. “If you don’t understand, do an experiment.” — Gregory Benford Copy Share
“Even their stable societies oscillated between banquets and barbarism.” — Gregory Benford Copy Share
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