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12.
Darwin, Erasmus, 1818, Vol. 1, pp. 397, 400. Emphasis is Darwin’s.

13.
Darwin, in
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette
, Vol. 45, November 8, 1862, p. 1052.

14.
Darwin, in
Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener
, Vol. 3, December 2, 1862, p. 696.

15.
Darwin, “Notebooks on Transmutation of Species,” series D, in Ruse, 1979, p. 173.

16.
Darwin, 1872, p. 99.

17.
Ibid., pp. 99–100.

18.
Ibid., p. 371.

19.
Ibid., p. 374.

20.
In DeBeer, 1964, p. 253.

21.
In W. W. Bartley III, “What Was Wrong with Darwin?”
The New York Review of Books
, September 15, 1977, p. 34.

22.
In Patterson, 1978, p. 14.

23.
Darwin, letter to Lyell, June 3, 1858,
Encyclopaedia Britannica
, 15th ed., Vol. 19, p. 530.

24.
In Marchant, Vol. 1, 1916, pp. 29–30.

25.
Ibid., p. 110.

26.
In DeBeer, p. 149.

27.
In Darwin, Francis, 1888, Vol 2, pp. 179–204.

28.
Darwin, 1872, p. 38.

29.
In Price, 1956, p. 28.

30.
In Darwin, Francis, 1950, p. 68.

31.
Ibid., p. 67.

32.
In Huxley, Julian, 1903, Vol. 1, pp. 265–266.

33.
Ibid., p. 268. Accounts of the debate differ somewhat in the exact wording of the quotations, as Huxley
fils
describes in the work cited. This quotation was cited by the elder Huxley as the most nearly accurate of the several accounts proffered by witnesses to the debate.

34.
In DeBeer, p. 167.

35.
Darwin, 1872, p. 236.

36.
Kant, 1969, p. 159.

37.
In Eiseley, 1958, pp. 234, 240.

38.
In Toulmin and Goodfield,
The Discovery of Time
, 1982, p. 222.

39.
Thompson, William, Baron Kelvin, 1891, Vol. 1, p. 16.

40.
Rutherford, 1904, p. 657.

41.
In Eve, 1939, p. 107.

42.
Ibid.

43.
In Segrè, 1980, p. 42.

44.
Arthur Stanley Eddington, “The Internal Constitution of the Stars,”
Nature
, 1920, Vol. 106, pp. 14–20, in Lang and Gingerich, 1979, p. 281.

45.
In Moss, 1968, p. 59.

46.
P.M.S. Blackett,
New Statesman
, December 5, 1959.

47.
In Dukas and Hoffmann, 1979, p. 81.

C
HAPTER
F
OURTEEN
: T
HE
E
VOLUTION OF
A
TOMS AND
S
TARS
 

1.
Chamberlin,
Science
, Vol. 9, July 7, 1899, p. 12, in Albritton, 1980, p. 198.

2.
Planck, Nobel Prize address, in Heathcote, 1954, p. 415.

3.
Annie Jump Cannon, “Pioneering in the Classification of Stellar Spectra,” from “The Henry Draper Memorial,”
Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
, Vol. 9, 1915, in Shapley, 1960, p. 158.

4.
In Lang and Gingerich, 1979, pp. 14–20.

5.
Ibid., p. 288.

6.
Hans Bethe, Nobel Prize address, in Heathcote, 1954, p. 216.

7.
In Bernstein, 1980, p. 53.

8.
In Lang and Gingerich, p. 288.

9.
Gamow, 1951, p. 73.

10.
Hoyle, 1965, p. 102.

11.
In Berger, 1985, p. 387.

12.
Gamow, 1951, p. 49.

13.
E. Margaret Burbidge, Geoffrey R. Burbidge, William A. Fowler, and Fred Hoyle, “Synthesis of the Elements in Stars,”
Reviews of Modern Physics
, Vol. 29, 1957, pp. 547–650, in Lang and Gingerich, p. 383.

14.
Ibid., p. 377.

15.
Ibid., p. 386.

16.
Shu, 1982, p. 157.

C
HAPTER
F
IFTEEN
: T
HE
Q
UANTUM AND
I
TS
D
ISCONTENTS
 

1.
Planck, Nobel Prize address, 1918, in Weaver, 1987, Vol II., p. 292.

2.
In Moore, 1985, p. 127.

3.
In Born, Max, 1971, p. 82. Einstein’s italics.

4.
Ibid., p. 91.

5.
Ibid., p. 158.

6.
In Clark, 1971, p. 34.

7.
In Segrè, 1970, p. 69.

8.
Veltman, unpublished talk at Caltech, April 29, 1982.

9.
Leon Lederman, interview with TF, Fermilab, February 24, 1985.

C
HAPTER
S
IXTEEN
: R
UMORS OF
P
ERFECTION
 

1.
Poincaré, 1958, p. 19; Poincaré, 1908, p. 59. For a discussion of these remarks see Wechsler, 1978, p. 5.

2.
Heisenberg, 1971, p. 68.

3.
Dirac, “The Evolution of the Physicist’s Picture of Nature,”
Scientific American
, May 1963, p. 47, in Wechsler, 1978, p. 5.

4.
Yang, 1983, p. 82.

5.
In Judson, 1980, p. 198.

6.
Wigner, 1967, p. 29.

7.
Ibid., p. 5.

8.
Behram Kursunoglu, in Mehra, 1973, p. 818.

9.
Ibid.

10.
Yang, 1961, p. 53.

11.
Weinberg, “The Forces of Nature,”
American Scientist
, Vol. 65, No. 2, March-April 1977, pp. 171–176.

12.
Ibid.

13.
Glashow, Nobel Prize address,
Review of Modern Physics
, Vol. 52, No. 3, July 1980, p. 543.

14.
Schwinger, 1958, pp. xvii.

15.
Glashow, Nobel Prize address,
Review of Modern Physics
, Vol. 52, No. 3, July 1980, p. 540.

16.
In Crease and Mann, 1986, p. 224.

17.
Ibid., p. 225.

18.
Glashow, “Partial Symmetries of Weak Interactions,”
Nuclear Physics
, Vol. 22, No. 4, February 1961, p. 579.

19.
In Hassan and Lai, 1984, p. 17.

20.
Weinberg,
Review of Modern Physics
, op. cit., p. 515.

21.
Weinberg, interview with TF, Austin, Texas, February 28, 1985.

22.
Weinberg,
Review of Modern Physics
, op. cit., p. 517.

23.
Ibid., p. 518.

24.
In Hilts, 1982, p. 86.

25.
Wilson, interview with Linda Dackman,
Arts and Architecture
, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1984.

26.
Abdus Salam, Nobel Prize address,
Review of Modern Physics
, op. cit., p. 530.

27.
In Ne’eman and Kirsh, 1986, p. 250.

28.
CERN Courier
, January/February 1985, p. 5.

29.
In Taubes, 1986, p. 39.

30.
Rubbia, interview with TF, CERN, December 1984.

31.
Engineering and Science
, September 1985, p. 20.

32.
In Crease and Mann, 1986, p. 417.

33.
Green, Schwarz, and Witten, 1987, p. 55.

34.
Gamow, 1966, p. 163.

35.
Weinberg, interview with TF, Austin, Texas, April 5, 1982.

36.
Sheldon Glashow and Paul Ginsparg, “Desperately Seeking Superstrings?”
Physics Today
, May 1986, p. 7.

37.
Weinberg, interview with TF, Austin, Texas, April 5, 1982.

C
HAPTER
S
EVENTEEN
: T
HE
A
XIS OF
H
ISTORY
 

1.
Gell-Mann, interview with TF, Pasadena, February 2, 1985.

2.
Weinberg, interview with TF, Austin, Texas, February 28, 1985.

3.
Gell-Mann, interview with TF, Pasadena, February 2, 1985.

4.
Turner, interview with TF, Fermilab, February 26, 1985.

5.
John Archibald Wheeler, interview with TF, Austin, February 28, 1985.

C
HAPTER
E
IGHTEEN
: T
HE
O
RIGIN OF THE
U
NIVERSE
 

1.
In Rothenberg, 1969, p. 34. The translation has been somewhat edited and revised.

2.
Sandage, interview with TF, Pasadena, February 2, 1985.

3.
Richard Feynman, talk at the University of Southern California, December 6, 1983.

4.
In Yourgrau and Breck, 1977, p. 95.

5.
Edward Tryon, interview with TF, New York, May 1, 1984.

6.
Ibid.

7.
Hawking, interview with TF, Pasadena, April 4, 1983.

8.
In Root-Bernstein, Robert Scott,
Discovering
, prepublication manuscript, 1985.

9.
Guth, Alan, in
The New York Times
, April 14, 1987, p. 17.

10.
Hawking, private communication, August 11, 1987.

11.
Hawking, talk at the 10th International Conference on General Relativity, Padua, Italy, July 7, 1983.

12.
Hawking, interview with TF, Pasadena, 1985.

13.
Wheeler, interview with TF, Austin, Texas, February 28, 1985.

14.
Misner, Thorn and Wheeler, 1973, p. 1202.

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