Once violence is understood to be a behavior, not a pathology, the fact that it was responsive to social pressures no longer seems mysterious.
Protocols of the Elders of Zion, supposedly a transcription of a secret Jewish council’s plans to subvert legitimate governments and take over the world, were sold internationally in the 1920s and 193...
Pump seals therefore had to be devised that were both gastight and greaseless, a puzzle no one had ever solved before that required the development of new kinds of plastics. (The seal material that ev...
The Strategic Bombing Survey estimates that probably more persons lost their lives by fire at Tokyo in a 6-hour period than at any [equivalent period of] time in the history of man. The fire storm at...
The concoction of the Protocols was probably the work of the head of the czarist secret police outside Russia, a Paris-based agent named Pyotr Ivanovich Rachkovsky. Borrowing and paraphrasing Machiave...
The idea of treating war as anything other than the harshest means of settling questions of very existence is ridiculous, he challenged the army commanders. Every war costs blood, and the smell of blo...
The word meltdown had not yet entered the reactor engineer’s vocabulary—Fermi was only then inventing that specialty—but that is what Compton was risking, a small Chernobyl in the midst of a crowded c...
There are those about us who say that such research should be stopped by law, alleging that man's destructive powers are already large enough. [...] There is no doubt that sub-atomic energy is availab...
This just goes to show that if you want to succeed in this world you don’t have to be much cleverer than other people, you just have to be one day earlier.
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 deterr...
Twentieth Century Book of the Dead.
What decided him (almost invariably) was a college project in which he had occasion to do some independent research—to find out things for himself. Once he discovered the pleasures of this kind of wor...
An excessive and unproductive deference of British physics students to their seniors. He therefore founded a club, the
Another billion deaths in the months that followed from mass starvation—from a mere 1.5-megaton regional nuclear war.
Few of the fathers of physicists were businessmen.
Informal system of mastery and apprenticeship over which was laid the more recent system of the European graduate school.
Mid-June 1915, the wind was favourable and we discharged a very poisonous gas, a mixture of chlorine and phosgene, against the [Russian] enemy lines. . . .344 Not a single shot was fired. . . . The at...
The highest form of musicality in the sphere of thought.
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.
What mankind must do to save itself is to launch an enterprise aimed at leaving the earth. On this task he thought the energies of mankind could be concentrated and the need for heroism could be satis...
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