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“we could solve any problem”: Ibid.
“Fermi had an inside track to God:” Orear, p. 29.
“certainly not the person to go to” … “not cold, but not warm either”: Goldberger, quoted in Cronin, p. 155.
“a musician … long practice and study”: EFP2, p. 923.
“I believe … in the last five years”: Letter to Fermi from George Kistiakowsky, Harvard Department of Chemistry, September 29, 1953. ARCF, Box 10, folder 10.
“we must be prepared for a long pull”: EFP2, p. 834.
“There are two ways … You have neither”: Dyson, p. 297.
“I remember my … stuck in a blind alley”: Ibid.
“Enrico, they are already … Hungarians”: Marx, p. 225.
“What Edward is trying to say is”: Cronin, p. 152.
37: THE SUPER
“are much more … with senators and congressmen”: Maltese (2003), p. 230.
“No man could … nor more loved for himself”: Commentary by Norris Bradbury. ARCF, Box 7, folder 2.
“We believe that the safety of this nation … making future wars impossible”: Rhodes (1986), pp. 751–52.
“The fact that no … an evil thing in any light” and “to tell the American public … such a weapon”: Rhodes (1995), p. 402.
“could have voted … the hydrogen bomb worked”: Libby, p. 15.
“flared up … shaking and speechless”: Ibid.
“some very serious inconveniences … proceeding very slowly”: Maltese (2003), p. 230.
“We used to talk and talk … it was the situation”: Interview with Amaldi, April 10, 1969, OHI.
“blow them off the face of the earth before they do that to us”: Rhodes (1995), p. 152.
“he was … to have been very incomplete”: Bethe (1982), p. 47.
“the big three”: Ford, p. 152.
“It is … your technical success”: Rhodes (1986), p. 476.
“once basic knowledge … around the sun”: EFP 2, p. 556.
“It is impossible … My utterly uninformed … between two and five years”: Letter from Fermi to W. Borden, Executive Director, Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, November 26, 1952. ARCF, Box 9, folder 17.
38: CIRCLING BACK
“Mrs. Ferrall has noticed”: Letters dated May 16, 1943, May 17, 1944, and June 17, 1946. ARCF, Box 9, folder 6.
“forces that … dangerously strong,” “but my knowledge … hear my views,” and “I believe … democratic form of government”: Letter from Fermi to the Honorable James F. Byrnes, secretary of state, October 16, 1945. ARCF Box 9, folder 17.
“demonstrating his … given its first impulse”: EFP2, p. 684.
“What a pity that … we all have to be on Oppenheimer’s side”: Telegdi, Physics Today, June 2002, pp. 38–42.
“born with a golden spoon in his mouth”: Telegdi, quoted in Orear, p.89.
“when I knew him … Acheson by his first name”: Orear, p. 113.
“Fermi, on the other … was Fermi!” Ibid.
“defrock him in his own church”: USAEC, p. 710.
“I would like to see … and therefore trust more” and “it would be wiser not to grant clearance”: Bird, p. 534.
“In England they would have knighted him”: Bethe (1968), p. 391.
“public-policy priesthood”: Bird, p. 549.
39: LAST GIFT TO ITALY (ULTIMO REGALO ALL’ITALIA)
“smiled archly … how angels felt” and “began singing … ‘seen the glory’”: Glauber, Physics Today, June 2002, pp. 44–46.
“would constitute … inestimable way”: Maltese (2003), p. 426.
“ultimo regalo all’Italia”: Ibid.
“I found … for him the place of song”: Ibid., p. 427.
“It wasn’t that … ability to express them”: Orear, p. 129.
40: FAREWELL TO THE NAVIGATOR
“Tell me, Chandra, when … an elephant?”: Cronin, p. 232.
“Gell-Mann and I … look into his face”: EFP1, p. 674.
“being fed artificially … discussed it with Socratic serenity”: ES, 184.
“It pleased them and it did not harm me”: Segrè (1993), p. 252.
“I hope the book … at the right moment”: Ibid., p. 252.
“adding with … ‘to save a soul?’”: Ibid., p. 251.
“the best thing Teller can do … that people may forget”: Ibid.
“told her to rent it only … need it after that”: Libby, p. 22.
“directing the reader … ‘Care of St. Peter’”: Ibid., p. 20.
“Some physicists’ wives … some more justified than others” and “But all in all, life … is well worth living”: Orear, p. 153.
“Earn a Ph.D.… in case”: Authors’ interview with Rachel Fermi, March 20, 2016.
“recognize career contributions … to nuclear energy”: Fermi Award.
“the Italian navigator has just landed in the new world”: Compton, p. 144.
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