“The landed classes neglected technical education, taking refuge in classical studies; as late as 1930, for example, long after Ernest Rutherford at… — 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… — 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… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
“It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
“Bohr proposed once that the goal of science is not universal truth. Rather, he argued, the modest but relentless goal of science… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
“Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense.… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
“[Chemist Michael] Polanyi found one other necessary requirement for full initiation into science: Belief. If science has become the orthodoxy of the… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
“Arguably the greatest technological triumph of the century has been the public-health system, which is sophisticated preventive and investigative medicine organized around… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
“For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discovery—that most unstable existential moment—the external world, nature itself, deeply confirms his innermost fantastic… — 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
