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p. 15 still proud of this achievement: Brand tells the story in ‘Why Haven’t We Seen the Whole Earth?’, Whole Earth Catalog, Fall 1969, p. 168.
p. 17 ‘the most influential environmental photograph ever taken’: The quote is from wilderness photographer Galen Rowell’s commentary in 100 Photographs That Changed the World (Life Magazine, 2003).
p. 18 ‘… he is wondering how to conceal the fact that he has no opinion to declare’: P. Medawar, Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought (Methuen, 1969), p. 11.
p. 18 ‘he made his profound discoveries in the manner of a mystic’: H. Ohanian, Einstein’s Mistakes (Norton, 2008), p. 3.
p. 18 ‘far beyond the capacity of human thinking’: Quoted in G. Holton, The Scientific Imagination: Case Studies (Cambridge University Press, 1978), p. 7.
p. 18 ‘… only to a small degree in this manner’: A. Einstein, ‘Induction and Deduction in Physics’, Berliner Tageblatt, 25 December 1919.
p. 18 ‘DNA chains coiled and floated’: Mullis tells the story in his autobiography Dancing Naked in the Mind Field (Pantheon, 1998), p. 3.
p. 20 ‘I was down there with the molecules …’: Mullis’s quote (and the one that follows) is from the BBC Horizon documentary Psychedelic Science. It is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2WurhYEQyY
p. 21 Steve Jobs … experience with LSD: reported in J. Markoff, What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer (Viking Adult, 2005), p. xix.
p. 21 Crick was ‘fascinated by its effects’: M. Ridley, Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code (Harper Perennial, 2008), p. 156.
p. 21 most of the pioneers of Silicon Valley were regular users: W. Kirn, ‘Valley of the Nerds’, GQ, July 1991, p. 96. Text available at http://www.marijuanalibrary.org/GQ_Valley_of_the_Nerds_91.html. See also A. Harrison, ‘LSD: The Geek’s Wonder Drug?’ at Wired online: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/01/70015
p. 21 Every one of them answered yes to both: This and the following quote are from R. Abraham, ‘Mathematics and the Psychedelic Revolution’, MAPS, Spring 2008, p. 6, available at www.maps.org/news-letters/v18n1/v18n1-MAPS_8–10.pdf
p. 22 In April 2008, the evolutionary biologist Jonathan Eisen: http://phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2008/04/what-is-so-bad-about-brain-doping.html
p. 23 ‘If any ideas have a claim to be called creative …’: J. Bronowski, The Common Sense of Science (Heinemann, 1951), p. 148.
p. 23 In an article entitled ‘Professor’s Little Helper’: B. Sahakian and S. Morein-Zamir, ‘Professor’s Little Helper’, Nature, vol. 450, p. 1157 (2007).
p. 23 A full 20 per cent of them: B. Maher, ‘Look Who’s Doping’, Nature, vol. 452, p. 674 (2008).
p. 23 get scientists through writing laborious grant proposals: ‘Food for Thought’, Nature, 31 January 2008, available at http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v451/n7178/edsumm/e080131–03.html
p. 23 ‘his pre-eminence is due to his muscles of intuition’: the quote is from a lecture delivered, after Maynard Keynes’ death, by his brother in 1942. The text of ‘Newton, the Man’ is available at http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Extras/Keynes_Newton.html
p. 24 ‘… potential forms of consciousness entirely different’: W. James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (1902). The quote is on p. 283 of the 2008 Arc Manor edition, available through Google books.
p. 25 ‘… but I was unable to decipher the scrawl’: This and the quote that follows are from O. Loewi, ‘An Autobiographical Sketch’, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, vol. 4, p. 17 (1960).
p. 26 According to Henry Dale: H. Dale, ‘Otto Loewi’, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, vol. 8, p. 80 (1962).
p. 26 ‘one of the most remarkable narratives of scientific discovery’: A. Lightman, ‘Scientific moments of truth’, New Scientist, 19 November 2005, p. 36.
p. 26 ‘This was the origin of the “Structural Theory”’: quoted in R.M. Roberts, Serendipity: Accidental Discoveries in Science (Wiley, 1989), p. 77.
p. 27 He saw himself