Richard Rhodes

“The Manhattan District bore no relation to the industrial or social life of our country; it was a separate state, with its…

— Richard Rhodes

“Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense.…

— Richard Rhodes

“[Chemist Michael] Polanyi found one other necessary requirement for full initiation into science: Belief. If science has become the orthodoxy of the…

— Richard Rhodes

“So Fermi said, “Well . . . there is the remote possibility that neutrons may be emitted in the fission of uranium and then of…

— Richard Rhodes

Writing is a craft and, like all craft, proceeds by stages: conception, material selection, rough shaping, detailed shaping, sanding and finishing.

— Richard Rhodes

“In 1920 the Horthy regime introduced a numerus clausus law restricting university admission which required “that the comparative numbers of the entrants…

— Richard Rhodes

“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

“ 'Reedlike, that’s what Hedy Kiesler is, sweet and reedlike, and when she wants to talk to you she doesn’t lean over…

— Richard Rhodes

“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