“Bohr proposed once that the goal of science is not universal truth. Rather, he argued, the modest but relentless goal of science is “the gradual removal of prejudices.” — 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
“Germany had been united in empire for only eight years when Einstein was born in Ulm on March 14, 1879. He grew up in… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
“We can imagine that this complicated array of moving things which constitutes “the world” is something like a great chess game being played by… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
“The world is full of terrible suffering, compared to which the small inconveniences of my childhood are as a drop of rain in the… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
