fallout," or the residual radiation after an atomic explosion. Pauling won, Robinson says, with the help of an argument that was unsupported by evidence at the time. Since then, however, it has been shown to be wrong. The argument involved a "linear extrapolation to zero," in Robinson's...
Transcript published as Fallout and Disarmament: The Pauling-Teller Debate (1958). Reprinted in 'Fallout and Disarmament: A Debate between Linus Pauling and Edward Teller', Daedalus (Spring 1958), 87, No. 2, 154. Science quotes on: | Based (10) | Do (1905) | End (603) | Force (497...
Obviously, what our age has in common with the age of the Reformation is the fallout of disintegrating values. What needs explaining is the presence of a receptive audience. More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible ...
With increasing amounts of exposure even in peacetime in the industrialized world—such as from atomic test fallout, the rise of nuclear power plants, and clinical X-rays and radiotherapy—the epidemiology of exposure to a known mutagen was considered quite important; the war only made the ...
To be fair, as much as I personally have been impacted by the fallout of fundamentalist Christian beliefs, Newton was an Alchemist, yet we’re all willing to sweep that under the rug in light of his significant discoveries. Perhaps we can appreciate Forrest Mims as a whole, while disliking...
And the animals and other weights would be left hanging in the air, and the earth would very quickly fallout of the heavens. Merely to conceive such things makes them appear ridiculous. — Ptolemy 'The Almagest 1', in Ptolemy: the Almagest; Nicolaus Copernicus: On the Revolutions of the ...
Robert Hartmann pointed out that both rude and civilised peoples show unspeakable cruelty to one another. We call it inhuman cruelty; but these dreadful things are unhappily truly human, because there is nothing like them in the animal world. A lion or tiger kills to eat, but the ...
[Stating his alarm for the effect of radioactive fallout on human heredity. The article containing the quote was published three days after he was awarded the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize.] — Linus Pauling Quoted in The New York Times (13 Oct 1962), 179. ...