We can imagine that this complicated array of moving things which constitutes the world is something like a great chess game being played by the gods, and we are observers of the game. We do not know...
The world is full of terrible suffering, compared to which the small inconveniences of my childhood are as a drop of rain in the sea.
The physics faculty of the University of Berlin included Nobel laureates Albert Einstein, Max Planck and Max von Laue,
British experimenters used Bank of England sealing wax to make glass tubes airtight.
The difference between the thinking of the paranoid patient and the scientist comes from the latter’s ability and willingness to test out his fantasies or grandiose conceptualizations through the syst...
The best way to do the job, Polanyi argued, was to allow each worker to keep track of what every other worker was doing.
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.
During the same period Szilard wrote Michael Polanyi he would stay in England until one year before the war, at which time I would shift my residence to New York City.896 The letter provoked comment,...
Rent a gram of radium for a minimum of three months for $125 a month.
The energy from each bursting uranium nucleus would be sufficient to make a visible grain of sand visibly jump.
Scientific opinion remains essentially mutual; it is established between scientists, not above them.
Trained no fewer than eleven Nobel Prize winners during his life, an unsurpassed record.
Notes, that the original unlicensed device was a ‘couch potato’–like remote control for radio receivers. So the 1939 Philco Mystery Control once again revealed its originality.) If all this bureaucrat...
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 consonance wit...
Science grew out of the craft tradition
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.
84 percent of the theoreticians were the sons of professional men, typically engineers, physicians and teachers, although a minority of experimentalists were farmers’ sons.
On his first visit to the Los Alamos Tech Area, when he had encountered von Neumann discussing theory with dark, intense Edward Teller, the tremendously long formulae on the blackboard had scared him....
Germany had been united in empire for only eight years when Einstein was born in Ulm on March 14, 1879. He grew up in Munich. He was slow to speak, but he was not, as legend has it, slow in his studie...
Einstein had judged it too large and moved into a small secretarial annex nearby.
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