“it was said to have played a part in the suicide . . .” Weinberg, The Discovery of Subatomic Particles, p. 3.
“to raise a little flax and a lot of children . . .” Weinberg, The Discovery of Subatomic Particles, p. 104.
“Had she taken a bullfighter . . .” Quoted in Cropper, p. 259.
“It was a feeling Rutherford would have understood.” Cropper, p. 317.
“tell the students to work it out for themselves.” Wilson, Rutherford, p. 174.
“as far as he could see . . .” Wilson, Rutherford, p. 208.
“He was one of the first to see . . .” Wilson, Rutherford, p. 208.
“Why use radio?” Quoted in Cropper, p. 328.
“Every day I grow in girth.” Snow, Variety of Men, p. 47.
“persuaded by a senior colleague that radio had little future.” Cropper, p. 94.
“Some physicists thought that atoms might be cube shaped . . .” Asimov, The History of Physics, p. 551.
“The number of protons . . .” Guth, p. 90.
“Add a neutron or two and you get an isotope.” Atkins, The Periodic Kingdom, p. 106.
“only one millionth of a billionth of the full volume . . .” Gribbin, Almost Everyone’s Guide to Science, p. 35.
“a fly many thousands of times heavier than the cathedral.” Cropper, p. 245.
“they could, like galaxies, pass right through each other unscathed” Ferris, Coming of Age in the Milky Way, p. 288.
“Because atomic behavior is so unlike ordinary experience . . .” Feynman, p. 117.
“the delay in discovery was probably a very good thing . . .” Boorse et al., p. 338.
“(I do not even know what a matrix is . . . )” Cropper, p. 269.
“a matter of simply needing more precise instruments . . .” Ferris, Coming of Age in the Milky Way, p. 288.
“at once everywhere and nowhere” David H. Freedman, from “Quantum Liaisons,” Mysteries of Life and the Universe, p. 137.
“a person who wasn’t outraged . . .” Overbye, p. 109.
“Don’t try.” Von Baeyer, p. 43.
“The cloud itself is essentially just a zone . . .” Ebbing, General Chemistry, p. 295.
“an area of the universe . . .” Trefil, 101 Things You Don’t Know About Science and No One Else Does Either, p. 62.
“things on a small scale . . .” Feynman, p. 33.
“matter could pop into existence . . .” Alan Lightman, “First Birth” in Shore, Mysteries of Life and the Universe, p. 13.
“two identical pool balls . . .” Lawrence Joseph, “Is Science Common Sense?” in Shore, Mysteries of Life and the Universe, pp. 42-43.
“Remarkably, the phenomenon was proved in 1997 . . .” Christian Science Monitor, “Spooky Action at a Distance,” October 4, 2001.
“one cannot ‘predict future events exactly . . .’ ” Hawking, A Brief History of Time, p. 61.
“Scientists have dealt with this problem . . .” David H. Freedman, from “Quantum Liaisons,” in Shore, Mysteries of Life and the Universe, p. 141.
“The weak nuclear force . . .” Ferris, The Whole Shebang, p. 297.
“The grip of the strong force reaches out . . .” Asimov, Atom, p. 258.
“he wasted the second half of his life.” Snow, The Physicists, p. 89.
