Quotes by : Richard Rhodes

Before it is science and career, before it is livelihood, before even it is family or love, freedom is....

The landed classes neglected technical education, taking refuge in classical studies; as late as 1930,....

[Chemist Michael] Polanyi found one other necessary requirement for full initiation into science: Belief.....

Arguably the greatest technological triumph of the century has been the public-health system, which is....

Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially....

For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discovery—that most unstable existential moment—the external....

The world is full of terrible suffering, compared to which the small inconveniences of my childhood are....

If you want to write, you can. Fear stops most people from writing, not lack of talent, whatever that....