The Impossible Takes Longer (25 page)

849.
Los Angeles Times,
April 4,1992

850. Allen L. Hammond, ed.,
A Passion to Know: 20 Profiles in Science,
1984

851. Attributed

852.
Boston Globe,
December 10, 1982

853. Anthony L. Peratt, "Dean of the Plasma Dissidents" in
The World and I
(supplement to the
Washington Times),
May 1988.

854. Attributed

855.
Boston Globe,
December 10, 1982

856. Jacques Monod,
On
the Molecular Theory of Evolution,
1974

857. Joseph Brodsky,
On Grief and Reason,
1995

858. George Wald, "The Origin of Life," in
Scientific American, The Physics and Chemistry of
Life,
1955

859. Helge Kragh,
Dirac: A Scientific Biography,
1990

860. Max Delbriick,
A Physicist Looks at Biology,
1949

861. Francois Jacob, "Molecular Tinkering and Evolution," in D. S. Bendall, ed.,
Evolution
from Molecules to Men,
1983

862. George Wald, "The Origin of Optical Activity,"
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences,
vol. 69,
1957

863. Jacques Monod,
Chance and Necessity,
1971

864.
New York Times,
April 11, 1965

865. Ronald W. Clark,
The Life of Ernst Chain: Penicillin and Beyond,
1985

866.
Chicago Daily News,
1936

867. Denis Brian,
The Voice of Genius: Conversations with Nobel Scientists and Other Laureates,
2001

868. Denis Brian,
The Voice of Genius: Conversations with Nobel Scientists and Other Laureates,
2001

869. Quoted in James Watson,
The Double Helix,
1968

870. Horace Freeland Judson,
The Eighth Day of Creation,
1979

871. Quoted in Ralph Brave, "James Watson Wants to Build a Better Human," Alternet.com, May 29, 2003

872. "Nobel Laureate Flags Cure for Stupidity,"
Sun-Herald,
Sydney, March 2, 2003

873.
Sunday Telegraph,
February 16, 1997

874. Address at Nobel conference, at Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota, October 19,1983

875. "Will I Soon Have a Clone?" in Bettina Stiekel, ed.,
The Nobel Book of Answers,
2003

876. "Persons and Genomes—Genetics and the Human Sciences," lecture at the London School of Economics, June 19, 2003

877. "Persons and Genomes—Genetics and the Human Sciences," lecture at the London School of Economics, June 19, 2003

878. Ralph Gunther,
The Magic Zone: Sketches of the Nobel Laureates,
2003

879. Jean-Paul Sartre,
Situations I,
1947

880. International Society for Optical Engineering newsroom, 2006

881. News release, Union of Concerned Scientists, February 10, 1997

882. Octavio Paz,
The Other Voice,
1990

883. Albert Camus,
Betwixt and Between,
1937

884. Juan Ramon Jimenez,
Selected Writings,
195-7

885.
Guardian Weekly,
October 15-21, 2004

886. Quoted in J. E. Avron, D. Osadchy, and R. Seiler,
Topological Quantum Numbers in the Hall
Effect,
Department of Mathematics, Technical University of Berlin, 2003

887. Denis Brian,
The Voice of Genius: Conversations with Nobel Scientists and Other Laureates,
2001

888. Albert Einstein,
Sidelights on Relativity,
1920

889. Leon Lederman,
The God Particle,
1993

890. Allen L. Hammond, ed.,
A Passion to Know: 20 Profiles in Science,
1984

891. Nobel acceptance speech, December 10, 1992

892. Remark in 1917, quoted in Allen L. Hammond, ed.,
A Passion to Know: 20 Profiles in Science,
1984

893. Salvador Luria,
A Slot Machine, a Broken Test Tube: An Autobiography,
1984

894. "Personal Observations on the Reliability of the Shuttle," appendix F to the President's Commission to Investigate the Challenger Disaster, 1986. Reprinted in Richard Feynman,
Classic Feynman,
2006

895. Richard Feynman,
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out,
1999

896. "How Does the Telephone Work?" in Bettina Stiekel, ed.,
The Nobel Book of Answers,
2003

897. Letter to the
New York Times
composed September 17, 1969

898. Glenn Seaborg,
A Scientist Speaks Out: A Personal Perspective on Science, Society and Change,
1996

899.
New York Times,
July 12, 1987

900. Peter Medawar,
The Threat and the Glory: Reflections of Science and Scientists,
1990

901. Address at Middlesex Hospital, October 1908, reprinted in Rudyard Kipling,
A Book of
Words,
1928

902. News summaries, March 22, 1954

903. Interview with Jonathan Holms, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, July 9, 2003

904. Marc Abrahams, ed.,
Annals of Improbable Research,
vol. 1, 2003

905.
Worcester State College News,
November 13, 2006

906. Herbert Simon, "Decision Making: Rational, Nonrational, and Irrational,"
Educational
Administration Quarterly,
vol. 29, 1993

907. P. F. Harrison and J. Lederberg,
Antimicrobial Resistance: Issues and Options,
1998

908. Pearl S. Buck,
The Good Earth,
1933

909. Inaugural lecture in the Norman Borlaug Lecture Series in Ames, Iowa, 2002

910. Quoted by Norman Borlaug in Nobel lecture, December 11, 1970

911. Arthur Kornberg,
For the Love of Enzymes: The Odyssey of a Biochemist,
1989

912. "Why Can't I Live on French Fries?" in Bettina Stiekel, ed.,
The Nobel Book of Answers,
2003

913. Kary Mullis,
Dancing Naked in the Mind Field,
1998

914. http://www.satyamag.com/may04/c0etzee.html

915. Attributed

916. Roy Jenkins,
Churchill: A Biography,
2001

917. James M. Webb and A. Wigfall Green,
William Faulkner of Oxford,
1965-

918.
National Observer,
February 3, 1964

919. Remark at Silver Spring, Maryland, February 1947

920. James C. Humes,
The Wit and Wisdom of Winston Churchill,
1994

921. Vincent Sheean,
Dorothy and Red,
1963

922. Interview, PBS, 1991

923. Interview, PBS, 1991

924. Interview, PBS, 1991

925. Interview, Academy of Achievement, November 11,1990

926. Heinrich Boll,
A Soldier's Legacy, 1985

927. Nobel lecture, December 10, 2002

928. Jimmy Carter,
Living Faith,
1996

929. Nobel lecture June 12, 1935;

930. Nobel lecture, December 11, 195-0

931. Winston Churchill,
My Early Life,
1930

932. Tyler Wasson, ed.,
Nobel Prize Winners,
1987

933. Nobel lecture, 1994

934. Romain Rolland,
Above the Battle,
1915*

935. Jean-Paul Sartre,
Lucifer and the Lord, 1951

936. Ernest Hemingway, introduction to Ben Raeburn, ed.,
Treasuryfor the Free World,
1946

937. Norman Angell,
The Steep Places,
1947

938.
Combat,
August 30,1944, reprinted in
Between Hell and Reason,
1991

939. Address to the nation on the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, January 4,1980

940. Winston Churchill, epigraph to
The Second World War,
vol. 1,
The Gathering Storm,
1948

941. Winston Churchill,
My Early Life,
1930

942. First speech in the House of Commons as prime minister, May 13,1940

943. Winston Churchill,
The Second World War,
vol. 2,
Their Finest Hour,
1949

944. Speech in the House of Commons, June 4,1940

945.
Winston Churchill,
The Second World War,
vol. 1,
The Gathering Storm,
1948

946. Otto Hahn,
My Life: The Autobiography of a Scientist,
1968

947. Speech in New York City, February 17, 1899

948. Pam Brown,
Henry Dunant,
1988

949. Lester Pearson, "Peace in the Family of Man," the 1968 Reith lectures

950.
Observer,
August 26,1973

951. Nobel lecture, December 12,1974

952. Nobel lecture, December 10, 2005-

953. Henry Kissinger,
Foreign Affairs,
January 13,1969

954. Quoted in
ACLU v. Prayer at Virginia Military Institute,
2002

955. Alice Calaprice, ed.,
The Quotable Einstein,
1996

956. Letter to Linus Pauling, quoted in Alice Calaprice, ed.,
The Quotable Einstein,
1996

957. Lansing Lamont,
Day of Trinity, 1965

958. Henry Kissinger,
Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy, 1957

959. Jeremy Bernstein,
Hitler's Uranium Club: The Secret Recordings at Farm Hall,
1996

960. Max Born,
The Restless Universe,
195*1

961. Interview in 1969, quoted in Andrew Brown,
The Neutron and the Bomb: A Biography of Sir
James Chadwick,
1997

962. Patrick Blackett,
Fear, War, and the Bomb,
1949