Goals Quote 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…

— Richard Rhodes

“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

I think I want to write a biography, something with broad appeal, but I haven't figured out about whom.

— 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…

— 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…

— Richard Rhodes

“In the real world it is meaningless to doubt existence; the doubt itself demonstrates the existence of the doubter.”

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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,…

— 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…

— Richard Rhodes

“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