--- title: "1 Bohr Quotes By Gregory Benford" description: "1 Bohr quotes by Gregory Benford. Plus more from Gregory Benford and more Bohr sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/711/gregory-benford-6934_bohr_fermi-turned-to-bohr-with-weary-eyes-and_511536.jpg" --- > [“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.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-benford/fermi-turned-to-bohr-with-weary-eyes-and-a-slanted-smile-and-shrugged/) [Gregory Benford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-benford/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/711/gregory-benford-6934_bohr_fermi-turned-to-bohr-with-weary-eyes-and_511536.jpg) ## More by Gregory Benford > [“They thought the Allies would be desperate to “buy” their reactor research in the postwar era. Apparently they were not moved to check to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-benford/they-thought-the-allies-would-be-desperate-to-buy-their-reactor/) [Gregory Benford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-benford/) > [“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.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-benford/the-war-had-funneled-men-and-women-into-familiar-channels-anton-s/) [Gregory Benford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-benford/) > [“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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-benford/ah-i-see-your-point-i-did-assist-on-the-okinawa-drop-as-the-british/) [Gregory Benford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-benford/) > [“Dawidoff, Nicholas. The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg. New York: Vintage, 1994. de”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-benford/dawidoff-nicholas-the-catcher-was-a-spy-the-mysterious-life-of-moe/) [Gregory Benford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-benford/) > [Everybody feels he has a right to a life of luxury - or at least comfort - so there's a lot of frustration and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-benford/everybody-feels-he-has-a-right-to-a-life-of-luxury-or-at-least/) [Gregory Benford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-benford/) > [“In fact, it took the resources of three countries to produce the bomb: the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. But there was more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-benford/in-fact-it-took-the-resources-of-three-countries-to-produce-the-bomb/) [Gregory Benford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-benford/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-benford/all-our-bright-minds-feynman-said-sardonically-and-we-can-t-figure/) [Gregory Benford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-benford/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-benford/moe-berg-until-he-s-finished-reading-a-paper-he-considers-it-alive/) [Gregory Benford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-benford/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-benford/tests-showed-there-was-no-enrichment-they-re-just-slinging-purified/) [Gregory Benford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-benford/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-benford/one-of-the-laws-of-nature-gordon-said-is-that-half-the-people-have/) [Gregory Benford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-benford/) > [“I knew personally many figures in this novel: Harold Urey, who greeted me at the grad students reception at UCSD in 1963; Karl Cohen,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-benford/i-knew-personally-many-figures-in-this-novel-harold-urey-who-greeted/) [Gregory Benford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-benford/) > [“Right. Isn’t that how science works?” Redwing grinned. “If you don’t understand, do an experiment.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-benford/right-isn-t-that-how-science-works-redwing-grinned-if-you-don-t/) [Gregory Benford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-benford/) > [“Sour grapes, the champagne of the intelligentsia.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-benford/sour-grapes-the-champagne-of-the-intelligentsia/) [Gregory Benford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-benford/) > [“Even their stable societies oscillated between banquets and barbarism.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-benford/even-their-stable-societies-oscillated-between-banquets-and-barbarism/) [Gregory Benford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-benford/) > [“Redwing had read somewhere that one of his favourite writers, Ernest Hemingway, had been asked what was the best training for a novelist. 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