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p. 29 ‘This form of knowledge is pleasing to the erudite …’: G. Cardano, The Book of My Life (NYRB Classics, 2002), p. 214.
p. 29 The strange story of the genesis of the electric motor: Tesla tells this story in My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla, first published in 1919, and widely available in various editions and on Google books.
p. 31 ‘I didn’t need any drawings; the whole plan was perfectly clear in my head’: This quote comes from a personal interview with Snyder, conducted by Roger Shephard and extracted in ‘Externalization of Mental Images’, a chapter from B. Randhawa, Visual Learning, Thinking, and Communication (Academic Press, 1976).
p. 31 a carbon copy of the American prototype: This is clear from the report into Russian spying on British atomic research. See Annex J of the Mitrokhin Inquiry Report: http://www.archive.official-documents.co.uk/document/cm47/4764/4764-axj.htm
p. 32 Fermi felt that he didn’t want to use the lead block: the story is told in S. Chandrasekhar, Truth and Beauty in Science (University of Chicago Press, 1987), p. 21.
p. 33 ‘feeling of guilt about suppressing the part chance and good fortune played’: A. Hodgkin, ‘Chance and Design in Electrophysiology: An Informal Account of Certain Experiments on Nerve Carried Out Between 1934 and 1952’, Journal of Physiology, vol. 263, p. 1 (1976).
p. 33 The British mathematician Paul Dirac: quoted in S. Chandrasekhar, Truth and Beauty in Science, p. 20.
p. 33 Michael Faraday apparently felt the same: sources for Faraday’s fascinating and instructive story are G. Cantor, Michael Faraday, Sandemanian and Scientist (Macmillan, 1991); and S. Chatterjee, ‘Michael Faraday: Discovery of Electromagnetic Induction’, Resonance, March 2002, available at http://www.ias.ac.in/resonance/Mar2002/Mar2002p35–45.html
p. 35 you can hand scientists all the evidence they need: the classic example is B. Barber and R. Fox, ‘The Case of the Floppy-Eared Rabbits,’ American Journal of Sociology, vol. 64, p. 128 (1958).
p. 38 Copernicus … referred to nature as ‘God’s Temple’: quoted in G. Holton, The Scientific Imagination, p. xi.
p. 38 ‘I began to think whether there might not be a Motion …’: Harvey’s idea is laid out in W. Harvey, On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals, translated by G. Keynes (The Classics of Medicine Library, L.B. Adams, 1978). Available at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1628harvey-blood.html. There are good accounts of Harvey’s work available on the web, e.g. http://physiologyonline.physiology.org/content/17/5/175.full
p. 39 ‘How come that number isn’t zero?’: de Grasse Tyson asked this question at ‘Beyond Belief: Science, Reason, Religion & Survival’, a conference that took place at the Salk Institute, La Jolla, California on 5–7 November 2006. There is video available at http://thesciencenetwork.org/programs/beyond-belief-science-religion-reason-and-survival (Session 2).
p. 39 mutually ‘alien categories of knowledge’: R. Highfield, ‘Disbelief proves to be a constant among scientists’, Daily Telegraph, 3 April 1997, p. 4.
p. 40 Kekulé suggested to his colleagues that … they should ‘learn to dream!’: Kekulé was speaking at a conference (Benzolfest) in 1890; the transcript is in Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft, vol. 23, p. 1302 (1890).
p. 40 ‘The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility’: A. Einstein, ‘Physics and Reality’, Journal of the Franklin Institute, vol. 221, p. 349 (March 1936).
CHAPTER 2
p. 42 The anarchists won the battle: This story was reported worldwide; see for example the Time story at http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1703692,00.html. The Guardian’s account is at http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jan/16/catholicism.internationaleducationnews
p. 42 a speech delivered by the Pope back in 1990, when he was Cardinal Ratzinger: Contained in Ratzinger, A Turning Point for Europe? The Church in the Modern World (Ignatius Press,