“we all commonly encounter other kinds of relativity . . .” Bodanis, E = mc2, p. 83.

“the ultimate sagging mattress . . .” Overbye, p. 55.

“In some sense, gravity does not exist . . .” Kaku, “The Theory of the Universe?” in Shore, Mysteries of Life and the Universe, p. 161.

“Edwin enjoyed a wealth of physical endowments, too.” Cropper, p. 423.

“At a single high school track meet . . .” Christianson, Edwin Hubble, p. 33.

“One Harvard computer, Annie Jump Cannon . . .” Ferris, Coming of Age in the Milky Way, p. 258.

“elderly stars that have moved past their ‘main sequence phase’ . . .” Ferguson, Measuring the Universe, pp. 166-67.

“They could be used as ‘standard candles’ . . .” Ferguson, p. 166.

“was developing his seminal theory . . .” Moore, Fireside Astronomy, p. 63.

“In 1923 he showed that a puff of distant gossamer . . .” Overbye, p. 45; and Natural History, “Delusions of Centrality,” December 2002-January 2003, pp. 28-32.

“no one had hit on the idea of the expanding universe before.” Hawking, The Universe in a Nutshell, pp. 71-72.

“In 1936 Hubble produced a popular book . . .” Overbye, p. 14.

“the whereabouts of the century’s greatest astronomer . . .” Overbye, p. 28.

CHAPTER 9 THE MIGHTY ATOM

“All things are made of atoms.” Feynman, p. 4.

“forty-five billion billion molecules.” Gribbin, Almost Everyone’s Guide to Science, p. 250.

“up to a billion for each of us” Davies, p. 127.

“Atoms, however, go on practically forever.” Rees, p. 96.

“a paramecium swimming in a drop of water . . .” Feynman, pp. 4-5.

“We might as well attempt to introduce . . .” Boorstin, The Discoverers, p. 679.

“In 1826, the French chemist P. J. Pelletier . . .” Gjertsen, p. 260.

“a confused Pelletier, upon beholding the great man . . .” Holmyard, Makers of Chemistry, p. 222.

“forty thousand people viewed the coffin . . .”Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 5, p. 433.

“For a century after Dalton made his proposal . . .” Von Baeyer, Taming the Atom, p. 17.

“it was said to have played a part in the suicide . . .” Weinberg, The Discovery of Subatomic Particles, p. 3.

“to raise a little flax and a lot of children . . .” Weinberg, The Discovery of Subatomic Particles, p. 104.

“Had she taken a bullfighter . . .” Quoted in Cropper, p. 259.

“It was a feeling Rutherford would have understood.” Cropper, p. 317.

“tell the students to work it out for themselves.” Wilson, Rutherford, p. 174.

“as far as he could see . . .” Wilson, Rutherford, p. 208.

“He was one of the first to see . . .” Wilson, Rutherford, p. 208.

“Why use radio?” Quoted in Cropper, p. 328.

“Every day I grow in girth.” Snow, Variety of Men, p. 47.

“persuaded by a senior colleague that radio had little future.” Cropper, p. 94.

“Some physicists thought that atoms might be cube shaped . . .” Asimov, The History of Physics, p. 551.

“The number of protons . . .” Guth, p. 90.

“Add a neutron or two and you get an isotope.” Atkins, The Periodic Kingdom, p. 106.

“only one millionth of a billionth of the full volume . . .” Gribbin, Almost Everyone’s Guide to Science, p. 35.

“a fly many thousands of times heavier than the cathedral.” Cropper, p. 245.

“they could, like galaxies, pass right through each other unscathed” Ferris, Coming of Age in the Milky Way, p. 288.

“Because atomic behavior is so unlike ordinary experience . . .” Feynman, p. 117.

“the delay in discovery was probably a very good thing . . .” Boorse et al., p. 338.

“(I do not even know what a matrix is . . . )” Cropper, p. 269.

“a matter of simply needing more precise instruments . . .” Ferris, Coming of Age in the Milky Way, p. 288.

“at once everywhere and nowhere” David H. Freedman, from “Quantum Liaisons,” Mysteries of Life and the Universe, p. 137.

“a person who wasn’t outraged . . .” Overbye, p. 109.

“Don’t try.” Von Baeyer, p. 43.

“The cloud itself is essentially just a zone . . .” Ebbing, General Chemistry, p. 295.

“an area of the universe . . .” Trefil, 101 Things You Don’t Know About Science and No One Else Does Either, p. 62.

“things on a small scale . . .” Feynman, p. 33.

“matter could pop into existence . . .” Alan Lightman, “First Birth” in Shore, Mysteries of Life and the Universe, p. 13.

“two identical pool balls . . .” Lawrence Joseph, “Is Science Common Sense?” in Shore, Mysteries of Life and the Universe, pp. 42-43.

“Remarkably, the phenomenon was proved in 1997 . . .”Christian Science Monitor, “Spooky Action at a Distance,” October 4, 2001.

“one cannot ‘predict future events exactly . . .’ ” Hawking, A Brief History of Time, p. 61.

“Scientists have dealt with this problem . . .” David H. Freedman, from “Quantum Liaisons,” in Shore, Mysteries of Life and the Universe, p. 141.

“The weak nuclear force . . .” Ferris, The Whole Shebang, p. 297.

“The grip of the strong force reaches out . . .” Asimov, Atom, p. 258.

“he wasted the second half of his life.” Snow, The Physicists, p. 89.

CHAPTER 10 GETTING THE LEAD OUT

“Among the many symptoms associated with overexposure . . .” McGrayne, Prometheans in the Lab, p. 88.

“These men probably went insane . . .” McGrayne, p. 92.

“In fact, Midgley knew only too well . . .” McGrayne, p. 92.

“One leak from a refrigerator at a hospital in Cleveland, Ohio . . .” McGrayne, p. 97.

“One pound of CFCs can capture . . .” Biddle, p. 62.

“A single CFC molecule . . .”Science, “The Ascent of Atmospheric Sciences,” October 13, 2000, p. 299.

“His death was itself memorably unusual.”Nature, September 27, 2001, p. 364.

“Up to this time, the oldest reliable dates . . .” Libby, “Radiocarbon Dating,” from Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1960.

“After eight half-lives . . .” Gribbin and Gribbin, Ice Age, p. 58.

“every raw radiocarbon date you read today . . .” Flannery, The Eternal Frontier, p. 174.

“it is like miscounting by a dollar . . .” Flannery, The Future Eaters, p. 151.

“just around the time that people first came to the Americas . . .” Flannery, The Eternal Frontier, pp. 174-75.

“whether syphilis originated in the New World . . .”Science, “Can Genes Solve the Syphilis Mystery?” May 11, 2001, p. 109.

“Unfortunately, he now met yet another formidable impediment . . .” Lewis, The Dating Game, p. 204.

“led him to create a sterile laboratory . . .” Powell, Mysteries of Terra Firma, p. 58.

“a figure that stands unchanged 50 years later . . .” McGrayne, p. 173.

“a doctor who had no specialized training . . .” McGrayne, p. 94.

“about 90 percent of it appeared to come from automobile exhaust pipes . . .”Nation, “The Secret History of Lead,” March 20, 2000.

“The notion became the foundation of ice core studies . . .” Powell, Mysteries of Terra Firma, p. 60.