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Richard Rhodes
(4 Jul 1937 - )
American historian and author who has written or edited over 20 books including the acclaimed The Making of the Atomic Bomb, which won a Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, and Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb.
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Science Quotes by Richard Rhodes (6 quotes)
Arguably the greatest technological triumph of the century has been the public-health system, which is sophisticated preventive and investigative medicine organized around mostly low- and medium-tech equipment; ... fully half of us are alive today because of the improvements.
— Richard Rhodes
In Visions of Technology (1999), 22.
Most of us aren’t even sure where science leaves off and technology begins. Neither are the experts.
— Richard Rhodes
In Visions of Technology (1999), 22.
Technology is … “practical arts”; in that guise, technology has been around for a good two million years. The Pleistocene spearpoint flaked from pink flint…was the high technology of its day, as sophisticated and effective as a samurai sword or a fighter jet.
— Richard Rhodes
In 'Introduction', Visions of Technology (1999), 21-22
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. Intellectuals neglect technical education to this day.
— Richard Rhodes
Describing C.P. Snow’s observations on the neglect of technical education in Visions of Technology (1999), 23.
The Pleistocene spearhead flaked from pink flint that I display on my coffee table was the high technology of its day, as sophisticated and efficient as a samuri sword or a fighter jet.
— Richard Rhodes
In Visions of Technology (1999), 22.
The preeminent transnational community in our culture is science. With the release of nuclear energy in the first half of the twentieth century that model commonwealth decisively challenged the power of the nation-state.
— Richard Rhodes
As quoted in Book Review titled 'The Men Who Made the Sun Rise' (about the book, Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986)) in William J. Broad, New York Times (8 Feb 1987), BR1.
See also:
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb, by Richard Rhodes. - book suggestion.
- Booklist for Richard Rhodes.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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