“had reached the conclusions by pure thought, unaided . . .” Snow, The Physicists, p. 101.
“no less than 7 x 1018 joules of potential energy . . .” Thorne, p. 172.
“Even a uranium bomb . . .” Bodanis, E = mc2, p. 77.
“Oh, that’s not necessary . . .” Nature, “In the Eye of the Beholder,” March 21, 2002, p. 264.
“the highest intellectual achievement of humanity . . .” Boorse et al., p. 53.
“he was simply sitting in a chair . . .” Bodanis, E = mc2, p. 204.
“‘Cosmological Considerations on the General Theory of Relativity.’ ” Guth, p. 36.
“‘Without it,’ wrote Snow in 1979 . . .” Snow, The Physicists, p. 21.
“Crouch was hopelessly out of his depth . . .” Bodanis, E = mc2, p. 215.
“I am trying to think who the third person is.” Quoted in Hawking, A Brief History of Time, p. 91; and Aczel, God’s Equation, p. 146.
“the faster one moves the more pronounced these effects become.” Guth, p. 37.
“a baseball thrown at a hundred miles an hour . . .” Brockman and Matson, How Things Are, p. 263.
“we all commonly encounter other kinds of relativity . . .” Bodanis, E = mc2, p. 83.
“the ultimate sagging mattress . . .” Overbye, p. 55.
“In some sense, gravity does not exist . . .” Kaku, “The Theory of the Universe?” in Shore, Mysteries of Life and the Universe, p. 161.
“Edwin enjoyed a wealth of physical endowments, too.” Cropper, p. 423.
“At a single high school track meet . . .” Christianson, Edwin Hubble, p. 33.
“One Harvard computer, Annie Jump Cannon . . .” Ferris, Coming of Age in the Milky Way, p. 258.
“elderly stars that have moved past their ‘main sequence phase’ . . .” Ferguson, Measuring the Universe, pp. 166-67.
“They could be used as ‘standard candles’ . . .” Ferguson, p. 166.
“was developing his seminal theory . . .” Moore, Fireside Astronomy, p. 63.
“In 1923 he showed that a puff of distant gossamer . . .” Overbye, p. 45; and Natural History, “Delusions of Centrality,” December 2002-January 2003, pp. 28-32.
“no one had hit on the idea of the expanding universe before.” Hawking, The Universe in a Nutshell, pp. 71-72.
“In 1936 Hubble produced a popular book . . .” Overbye, p. 14.
“the whereabouts of the century’s greatest astronomer . . .” Overbye, p. 28.
CHAPTER 9 THE MIGHTY ATOM
“All things are made of atoms.” Feynman, p. 4.
“forty-five billion billion molecules.” Gribbin, Almost Everyone’s Guide to Science, p. 250.
“up to a billion for each of us” Davies, p. 127.
“Atoms, however, go on practically forever.” Rees, p. 96.
“a paramecium swimming in a drop of water . . .” Feynman, pp. 4-5.
“We might as well attempt to introduce . . .” Boorstin, The Discoverers, p. 679.
“In 1826, the French chemist P. J. Pelletier . . .” Gjertsen, p. 260.
“a confused Pelletier, upon beholding the great man . . .” Holmyard, Makers of Chemistry, p. 222.
“forty thousand people viewed the coffin . . .” Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 5, p. 433.
“For a century after Dalton made his proposal . . .” Von Baeyer, Taming the Atom, p. 17.
