Was simply unable to let things be foggy. Since they always are, this kept him pretty active.
Informal system of mastery and apprenticeship over which was laid the more recent system of the European graduate school.
Twentieth Century Book of the Dead.
Time: 0529:45. The firing circuit closed; the X-unit discharged; the detonators at thirty-two detonation points simultaneously fired; they ignited the outer lens shells of Composition B; the detonatio...
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...
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...
Once violence is understood to be a behavior, not a pathology, the fact that it was responsive to social pressures no longer seems mysterious.
Of 76,000 buildings in Hiroshima 70,000 were damaged or destroyed, 48,000 totally. It is no exaggeration to say, reports the Japanese study, that the whole city was ruined instantaneously.2679 Materia...
Not even his most important discovery kept Fermi from going home for lunch.
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 co...
But the death machine had only sampled a vast new source of raw material: the civilians behind the lines. It had not yet evolved equipment efficient to process them, only big guns and clumsy biplane b...
Bohr proposed once that the goal of science is not universal truth. Rather, he argued, the modest but relentless goal of science is the gradual removal of prejudices.
About one hundred refugee physicists emigrated to the United States between 1933 and 1941.
When he thundered up the steep staircase [of the institute], two steps at a time, there were few of us younger ones that could keep pace with him. The peace of the library was often broken by a brisk...
They all thought that civilized Germans would not stand for anything really rough happening. Szilard held no such sanguine view, noting that the Germans themselves were paralyzed with cynicism, one of...
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 interferen...
The history professor Lifton interviewed is similarly at a loss: I climbed Hikiyama Hill and looked down. I saw that Hiroshima had disappeared. . . . I was shocked by the sight. . . . What I felt then...
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 chemist's nightmare, the tail gunner, Robert Caron, gue...
Nations existed in a condition of international anarchy. No hierarchical authority defined their relations with one another. They negotiated voluntarily as self-interest moved them and took what they...
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, pac...