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“For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discovery—that most unstable existential moment—the external world, nature itself, deeply confirms his innermost fantastic convictions. Anchored abruptly in the world, Leviathan gasping on his hook, he is saved from extreme mental disorder by the most profound affirmation of the real.”

Inspiration Science Discovery Atomic Bomb

Book:The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Source: The Making of the Atomic Bomb

“Before it is science and career, before it is livelihood, before even it is family or love, freedom is sound sleep and safety to notice the play of morning sun.”

Inspirational Science

Book:The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Source: The Making of the Atomic Bomb

“The landed classes neglected technical education, taking refuge in classical studies; as late as 1930, for example, long after Ernest Rutherford at Cambridge had discovered the atomic nucleus and begun transmuting elements, the physics laboratory at Oxford had not been wired for electricity. Intellectual neglect technical education to this day. [Describing C.P. Snow's observations on the neglect of technical education.]”

Science Education Study Physics Atoms Oxford Cambridge Nucleus Ernest Rutherford Rutherford C P Snow Baron C P Snow Baron Snow Charles Percy Snow

Book:Visions of Technology: A Century of Vital Debate About Machines Systems and the Human World

Source: Visions of Technology: A Century of Vital Debate About Machines Systems and the Human World

“[Chemist Michael] Polanyi found one other necessary requirement for full initiation into science: Belief. If science has become the orthodoxy of the West, individuals are nevertheless still free to take it or leave it, in whole or in part; believers in astrology, Marxism and virgin birth abound. But "no one can become a scientist unless he presumes that the scientific doctrine and method are fundamentally sound and that their ultimate premises can be unquestionably accepted.”

Science Theory Richard Rhodes The Making Of The Atomic Bomb

Book:The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Source: The Making of the Atomic Bomb

“Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts to a claim that science is essentially different from and superior to all human beliefs that are not scientific statements--and this is untrue.”

Science Physics Richard Rhodes The Making Of The Atomic Bomb

Book:The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Source: The Making of the Atomic Bomb