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Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. -Niels Bohr...
...publicly helping further the massive public works projects Brandeis favored so strongly Frankfurter's style was to schedule meetings with prominent leaders--using a Supreme Court office that many of his aides never knew about and to unabashedly try to persuade them. He, for instance, consulted with physicist Niels Bohr on the controversial Manhattan Project, and sought to persuade Roosevelt and Secretary of War Henry I. Stimson to disclose America's plans for the atom bomb to the Soviet Union. Only his overriding concern with maintaining the judicial propriety and his skill at perpetuating the "myth of judicial seclusion" kept...
...physicist unfolds in this posthumously published work of nonfiction is better than any that Snow the novelist invented in his romans à clef like The Search and The New Men. There is something marvelously Dickensian, for instance, about Ernest Rutherford, whose booming voice upset such sensitive instruments as Niels Bohr, the Henry James of atomic physics, who whispered his way through labyrinths of elegant theory to explain what Rutherford demonstrated. Then, with Einstein ("the best company of all the great physicists") hovering above the scene, the rest of Snow's pantheon is Introduced. In France there was Louis...
...inspired scientists for being "morally admirable" as well. After citing their "courage, truth-telling, kindness," he rather astonishingly asserts that "on the whole scientists make slightly better husbands and fathers than most of us." For Snow the agonizing irony is that these saintly men-Rutherford, "bored" by money; Bohr, "simply and genuinely kind"; Einstein, not only looking but be having like an Old Testament prophet-should end up being even indirectly responsible for Hiroshima...
...Alamos is a majestic ivory mesa artificially painted onto the national landscape by men named Oppenheimer, Fermi, Bohr, Feynman, Kistiakowsky, Szilard and Fuchs. "At great expense, we have gathered on this mesa the largest collection of crackpots ever seen," General Leslie R. Groves told his assembled officers at the remote outpost in the New Mexico wilderness during the darkest days of World War II. "And it's your job to keep them happy...