Potent quotables
Advancement in many political, economic, and scientific careers was granted only to those who repressed their personal opinions, avoided conflict, and displayed unquestioning obedience to those above them.
More than eighty years later, Curie’s laboratory notes remain so radioactive that they are kept in a lead-lined box.
Just as she did whenever she wanted to telegraph the neighbors below with important news, or to share something on the stove that was particularly tasty, Protsenko rapped on the kitchen radiator with a spoon. The response came clanging right back: Come down!
A nuclear accident that results in contaminating a number of countries with radioactive material is not simply an internal matter