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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6bffd0e | Kapitza Club, devoted to open and unhierarchical discussion. Membership was limited and coveted. Members met in college rooms and | Richard Rhodes | ||
| 11a4572 | Only very rarely does an animal living under natural conditions in the wild die of old age. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| 1626bf7 | a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought of as a child. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| b1eb548 | sufficiently to produce worldwide agricultural collapse. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| 2b96366 | A page a day is a book a year. Listen to that again: a page a day is a book a year. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| 26d7871 | Twentieth Century Book of the Dead. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| f5b7240 | of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| 902903f | the energy from each bursting uranium nucleus would be sufficient to make a visible grain of sand visibly jump. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| 729c3da | Mechanical proficiency and practical gadgets in America counterbalanced to an extent the beauty of Italy. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| 7d756d6 | In the course of the meeting the two leaders discussed what terms of surrender they would eventually insist upon; the word "unconditional" was discussed but not included in the official joint statement to be read at the final press conference. Then, on January 24, to Churchill's surprise, Roosevelt inserted the word ad lib: "Peace can come to the world," the President read out to the assembled journalists and newsreel cameras, "only by the .. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| 0bc5163 | Not even his most important discovery kept Fermi from going home for lunch. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| adbfba7 | there was very little doubt in my mind that the world was headed for grief. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| 8ed035d | there are not many horrors as efficient for the generation of deep anger and terrible lifelong insecurity as the inability of a father to protect his child. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| c77b251 | It is a painful irony that silent movies were driven out of existence just as they were reaching a kind of glorious summit of creativity and imagination, so that some of the best silent movies were also some of the last ones. Of no film was that more true than Wings, which opened on August 12 at the Criterion Theatre in New York, with a dedication to Charles Lindbergh. The film was the conception of John Monk Saunders, a bright young man fr.. | Bill Bryson | ||
| f401cbc | A group of refugee scientists was gathered outside the Clarendon Laboratory at Oxford the next morning discussing the Munich agreement when Frederick Lindemann drove up.937 Churchill had described the Czechoslovakian partition as amounting to "the complete surrender of the Western Democracies to the Nazi threat of force."938 Lindemann, Churchill's intimate adviser, was equally disgusted. One of the refugees asked him if he thought Chamberla.. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| 3a9d5f4 | But my intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| fd57d41 | people are more likely to refrain from violence out of preference for a nonviolent existence than they are to do so out of fear of punishment. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| 8ec8f3f | Generosity is meaningless to a god, who never suffers shortage or want; courage is meaningless to a god, who is immortal and can never suffer permanent injury, and so on. Our virtues and our dignity arise from our mortality, our humanity--and not from any success in being God. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| 1118b94 | Not testosterone per se but the patriarchal preference for subjecting males to violentization, and their physical advantage in achieving early successful violent performances, explains why men are much more likely than women to be seriously violent. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| fa86d7a | Preventing and limiting violence means protecting children from brutalization in a country where physically punishing children continues to be acceptable behavior. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| cbe19b5 | it is possible to argue that some people are violent and mentally ill, but it is no longer defensible to argue that people are violent because they are mentally ill. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| e4d2743 | The character damage of a trauma survivor," he concludes, "can be understood as a reflection both of his or her radical aloneness and of the continued presence of the perpetrator in the victim's inner life." | Richard Rhodes | ||
| 0b39437 | the ordeal of developing new selves will not be seriously entertained, much less embarked upon, until [people] are forced into it by the partial destruction of their former selves. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| 645f6ae | Lonnie Athens demonstrates to the contrary that violent people come to their violence by the same universal processes of soliloquy and dramatic self-change that carry the rest of us to conformity, pacifism, greatness, eccentricity or sainthood--and bear equal responsibility for their choices. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| c628c4d | Giving such violent caretakers second chances, as social workers and judges frequently do, with the best of intentions--attributing their violence to poverty or racial prejudice and propping them up with counseling, household helpers and other resources--cannot reverse their violentization. To the contrary, such endorsement implicitly authorizes further violence and makes the state complicit with the violators. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| a452162 | Such a choice--to tolerate the brutalization of children as we continue to do--is equally violent and equally evil, and we reap what we sow. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| 8b6a561 | Once violence is understood to be a behavior, not a pathology, the fact that it was responsive to social pressures no longer seems mysterious. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| 077014e | convulsing on the floor and had called Andy. "Why didn't you call Andy? Why didn't you go to a diner and wait for me? Why didn't you call Richard? Why didn't you call Philippa and make her find me? Why didn't you call Citizen, or Rhodes, or Eli, or Phaedra, or the Henry Youngs, or--" "I don't know," he said, miserably. It was impossible to explain to the healthy the logic of the sick, and he didn't have the energy to try." | Hanya Yanagihara | ||
| 2bf712b | Thus in the first months of 1940 it was already clear to two intelligent observers that nuclear weapons would be weapons of mass destruction against which the only apparent defense would be the deterrent effect of mutual possession. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| b3f9cf7 | The subtle experimenter lost his subtlety when he shifted from doing science to proselytizing for God. Rigor slipped to Chautauqua logic and he perpetrated such howlers as the notion that Heisenberg's uncertainty principle somehow extends beyond the dimensions of the atom into the human world and confirms free will. Bohr heard Compton's Free Will lecture when he visited the United States in the early 1930s and scoffed. "Bohr spoke highly of.. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| 036c739 | Less obviously, the resurgence of capital punishment in modern America exposes the insecurity of U.S. authorities with the increase in violent crime, which challenges government monopoly of violence. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| 3089413 | Although personally I am quite content with the existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement, and I therefore think that action should be taken in the sense proposed by Lord Cherwell. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| 2e27b76 | From personal experience as well as professional study, Athens strongly rejects linking community malignancy with race. Violentization has nothing to do with race--or with poverty, for that matter.) | Richard Rhodes | ||
| 4da447b | It is impossible to describe the utter despair of all classes of Jews in Germany. 718 The thoroughness with which they are being hounded out and stopped short in their careers is appalling. Unless help comes from the outside, there is no outlook for thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, except starvation or [suicide]. It is a gigantic "cold pogrom" and it is not only against Jews; Communists of course are included, but are not singled o.. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| e8e7c60 | Anne Harrington de Santana, has discerned that nuclear weapons have acquired the status of fetish objects; like the coin of the realm in relation to commodities, our glittering warheads have become markers of national power: "Just as access to wealth in the form of money determines an individual's opportunities and place in a social hierarchy, access to power in the form of nuclear weapons determines a state's opportunities and place in the.. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| 187a640 | Then everyone began to wonder why he didn't shut the pile off," Anderson continues. 1701 "But Fermi was completely calm. He waited another minute, then another, and then when it seemed that the anxiety was too much to bear, he ordered 'ZIP in!' " It was 3: 53 P.M. Fermi had run the pile for 4.5 minutes at one-half watt and brought to fruition all the years of discovery and experiment. Men had controlled the release of energy from the atomic.. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| 878910d | About one hundred refugee physicists emigrated to the United States between 1933 and 1941.727 | Richard Rhodes | ||
| e218c61 | A scholar as authoritative as Richard Rhodes97 was still writing in 1995 that the Soviets had over forty ICBMs in 1961, ten times more than they actually had. | Daniel Ellsberg | ||
| 107bcc6 | The weapon devised as an instrument of major war would end major war. It was hardly a weapon at all, the memorandum Bohr was writing in sweltering Washington emphasized; it was "a far deeper interference with the natural course of events than anything ever before attempted" and it would "completely change all future conditions of warfare." 2025 When nuclear weapons spread to other countries, as they certainly would, no one would be able any.. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| 3647e3a | In an attempt to break out and be a reasonable man, I had to realize that my own worries about what I did were valid and were important, but that they were not the whole story, that there must be a complementary way of looking at them, because other people did not see them as I did. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| 23e40d4 | They pictured the uranium nucleus as a liquid drop gone wobbly with the looseness of its confinement and imagined it hit by even a barely energetic slow neutron. The neutron would add its energy to the whole. The nucleus would oscillate. In one of its many random modes of oscillation it might elongate. Since the strong force operates only over extremely short distances, the electric force repelling the two bulbs of an elongated drop would g.. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| f002381 | Oppenheimer was surprised and impressed. When Roosevelt died, he told an audience late in life, he had felt "a terrible bereavement . . . partly because we were not sure that anyone in Washington would be thinking of what needed to be done in the future." Now he saw that "Colonel Stimson was thinking hard and seriously about the implications for mankind of the thing we had created and the wall into the future that we had breached." | Richard Rhodes | ||
| 8f73f2a | Dr. Oppenheimer pointed out that the immediate concern had been to shorten the war. The research that had led to this development had only opened the door to future discoveries. Fundamental knowledge of this subject was so widespread throughout the world that early steps should be taken to make our developments known to the world. He thought it might be wise for the United States to offer to the world free interchange of information with pa.. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| 9331415 | He chose not to work through the limited official channels that the Army and the OSRD had devised to constrict the flow of information. "I wanted to let Oppenheimer know what we were doing. Someone in the Bureau of Ships knew one of the people in the [Navy] Bureau of Ordnance who was going out to Los Alamos. I remember that I met the man at the old Warner Theater here in Washington, up in the balcony--real cloak and dagger stuff." | Richard Rhodes |