RICHARD RHODES

Throwing money after security turns out to be a classic example of the law of diminishing marginal utility.

Why our elected leaders continue to believe that such genocidal weapons are legitimate and moral in our hands but illegitimate and immoral in the hands of our enemies…

I think I want to write a biography, something with broad appeal, but I haven't figured out about whom.

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.

Half the experimental physicists studied and fully 84 percent of the theoreticians were the sons of professional men, typically engineers, physicians, and teachers …. None of the fathers … were the sons of unskilled laborers.

Inventions are rarely just a sudden bright idea. Even if they are, they usually have antecedents in the form of pieces of the idea... Piecing these things together gives one a sense of where inventions come from, and that's interesting.

I've puzzled over the difficulty that students have with editing, and I think I've identified its source: It's their self-talk. We all talk to ourselves, inside our heads. That's what consciousness is.

Although every writer dreams of getting it right on the first pass, very few succeed.

Writing is a craft and, like all craft, proceeds by stages: conception, material selection, rough shaping, detailed shaping, sanding and finishing.

Many novice writers, students in particular, think that writing is little more than copying down their self-talk, the palaver of the voices they hear in their heads. Of course, self-talk is thinking, and writing begins with thinking.

I think I want to write a biography, something with broad appeal, but I haven't figured out about whom.

Inventions are rarely just a sudden bright idea. Even if they are, they usually have antecedents in the form of pieces of the idea... Piecing these things together gives one a sense of where inventions come from, and that's interesting.

Many novice writers, students in particular, think that writing is little more than copying down their self-talk, the palaver of the voices they hear in their heads. Of course, self-talk is thinking, and writing begins with thinking.

Although every writer dreams of getting it right on the first pass, very few succeed.

I've puzzled over the difficulty that students have with editing, and I think I've identified its source: It's their self-talk. We all talk to ourselves, inside our heads. That's what consciousness is.

Writing is a craft and, like all craft, proceeds by stages: conception, material selection, rough shaping, detailed shaping, sanding and finishing.

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.

Throwing money after security turns out to be a classic example of the law of diminishing marginal utility.

Why our elected leaders continue to believe that such genocidal weapons are legitimate and moral in our hands but illegitimate and immoral in the hands of our enemies…

Half the experimental physicists studied and fully 84 percent of the theoreticians were the sons of professional men, typically engineers, physicians, and teachers …. None of the fathers … were the sons of unskilled laborers.