“For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discovery—that most unstable existential moment—the external world, nature itself, deeply confirms his innermost fantastic convictions. Anchored abruptly in the world, Leviathan gasping on his hook, he is saved from extreme mental disorder… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
“If you want to write, you can. Fear stops most people from writing, not lack of talent, whatever that is. Who am I? What… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
“The landed classes neglected technical education, taking refuge in classical studies; as late as 1930, for example, long after Ernest Rutherford at Cambridge had… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
I think I want to write a biography, something with broad appeal, but I haven't figured out about whom. — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
“The bow of the Carpathians as they curve around northwestward begins to define the northern border of Czechoslovakia. Long before it can complete that… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
“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… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
“In the real world it is meaningless to doubt existence; the doubt itself demonstrates the existence of the doubter.” — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
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… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
“Before it is science and career, before it is livelihood, before even it is family or love, freedom is sound sleep and safety to… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
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… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
“The civil machinery which ensured the carrying out of this law, and the military organization which turned numbers of men into battalions and divisions,… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
“Chaim Weizmann gives some measure of that totality in the harsher world of the Russian Pale when he writes that “the acquisition of knowledge… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
“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… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
