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> [“Germany had been united in empire for only eight years when Einstein was born in Ulm on March 14, 1879. He grew up in Munich. He was slow to speak, but he was not, as legend has it, slow in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rhodes/germany-had-been-united-in-empire-for-only-eight-years-when-einstein/)

[Richard Rhodes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rhodes/)

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> [“Bohr, for his part, supple pragmatist and democrat that he was, never an absolutist, heard once too often about Einstein’s personal insight into the gambling habits of the Deity. He scolded his distinguished colleague finally in Einstein’s own terms. God…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rhodes/bohr-for-his-part-supple-pragmatist-and-democrat-that-he-was-never-an/)

[Richard Rhodes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rhodes/)

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## Other authors on Einstein

## More by Richard Rhodes

> [“If you want to write, you can. Fear stops most people from writing, not lack of talent, whatever that is. Who am I? What…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rhodes/if-you-want-to-write-you-can-fear-stops-most-people-from-writing-not/)

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> [“The landed classes neglected technical education, taking refuge in classical studies; as late as 1930, for example, long after Ernest Rutherford at Cambridge had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rhodes/the-landed-classes-neglected-technical-education-taking-refuge-in/)

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> [I think I want to write a biography, something with broad appeal, but I haven't figured out about whom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rhodes/i-think-i-want-to-write-a-biography-something-with-broad-appeal-but-i/)

[Richard Rhodes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rhodes/)

> [“The bow of the Carpathians as they curve around northwestward begins to define the northern border of Czechoslovakia. Long before it can complete that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rhodes/the-bow-of-the-carpathians-as-they-curve-around-northwestward-begins/)

[Richard Rhodes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rhodes/)

> [“Consider Rutherford playing his thoroughly unlikely hunch about alpha backscattering, Heisenberg remembering an obscure remark of Einstein’s and concluding that nature only performed in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rhodes/consider-rutherford-playing-his-thoroughly-unlikely-hunch-about-alpha/)

[Richard Rhodes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rhodes/)

> [“In the real world it is meaningless to doubt existence; the doubt itself demonstrates the existence of the doubter.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rhodes/in-the-real-world-it-is-meaningless-to-doubt-existence-the-doubt/)

[Richard Rhodes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rhodes/)

> [I've puzzled over the difficulty that students have with editing, and I think I've identified its source: It's their self-talk. We all talk to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rhodes/i-ve-puzzled-over-the-difficulty-that-students-have-with-editing-and/)

[Richard Rhodes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rhodes/)

> [“Before it is science and career, before it is livelihood, before even it is family or love, freedom is sound sleep and safety to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rhodes/before-it-is-science-and-career-before-it-is-livelihood-before-even/)

[Richard Rhodes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rhodes/)

> [Many novice writers, students in particular, think that writing is little more than copying down their self-talk, the palaver of the voices they hear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rhodes/many-novice-writers-students-in-particular-think-that-writing-is/)

[Richard Rhodes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rhodes/)

> [“The civil machinery which ensured the carrying out of this law, and the military organization which turned numbers of men into battalions and divisions,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rhodes/the-civil-machinery-which-ensured-the-carrying-out-of-this-law-and/)

[Richard Rhodes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rhodes/)

> [“Chaim Weizmann gives some measure of that totality in the harsher world of the Russian Pale when he writes that “the acquisition of knowledge…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rhodes/chaim-weizmann-gives-some-measure-of-that-totality-in-the-harsher/)

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> [“Rather than sleep, Tibbets crawled through the thirty-foot tunnel to chat with the waist crew, wondering if they knew what they were carrying. "A…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rhodes/rather-than-sleep-tibbets-crawled-through-the-thirty-foot-tunnel-to/)

[Richard Rhodes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rhodes/)

> [“Germany had been united in empire for only eight years when Einstein was born in Ulm on March 14, 1879. He grew up in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rhodes/germany-had-been-united-in-empire-for-only-eight-years-when-einstein/)

[Richard Rhodes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rhodes/)

> [“We can imagine that this complicated array of moving things which constitutes “the world” is something like a great chess game being played by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rhodes/we-can-imagine-that-this-complicated-array-of-moving-things-which/)

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> [“The world is full of terrible suffering, compared to which the small inconveniences of my childhood are as a drop of rain in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rhodes/the-world-is-full-of-terrible-suffering-compared-to-which-the-small/)

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