10. Disturbing, p. 48.
11. QED, p. 495.
12. Selected, p. 12.
13. WEB, 88.
14. Kaiser, p. 71.
15. K. A. Milton, “Julian Schwinger,” June 2006, http://www.nhn.ou.edu/~milton/bio.pdf, p. 8; Hans Bethe interviewed by Silvan Schweber, “Web of Stories,” http://www.webofstories.com/play/4571.
16. Richard Feynman, PT, June 1948.
17. WEB, 57.
18. Rebel, p. 315.
19. WEB, 58; Disturbing, p. 55.
20. Disturbing, p. 56.
21. Ibid., p. 54.
22. PT, February 1989; Eros, p. 322.
23. James Gleick, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (New York: Pantheon, 1992), p. 264.
24. Ibid., p. 263.
25. Disturbing, p. 62.
26. Richard P. Feynman, What Do You Care What Other People Think? (New York: Norton, 1988), p. 65.
27. VHD.
28. QED, p. 503.
29. Disturbing, p. 65.
30. WEB, 74.
31. QED, p. 503.
32. Ibid., p. 504.
33. WEB, 68.
34. QED, p. 500.
4. THE SECRET SIGNATURE OF THINGS
1. Disturbing, p. 66.
2. WEB, 75.
3. Disturbing, p. 67.
4. QED, p. 571.
5. James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (New York: Viking, 1964, Viking Critical Edition; originally published, 1916), p. 215.
6. QED, p. 571.
7. Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, p. 212.
8. FJD letter to his parents, September 14, 1948, reported in Kaiser, p. 74.
9. Kaiser, p. 95.
10. WEB, 84.
11. FJD letter to his parents, September 30, 1948, reported in Kaiser, p. 93.
12. Kaiser, p. 74; QED, p. 505.
13. Kaiser, p. 77.
14. Ibid.
15. Jagdish Mehra, The Beat of a Different Drum: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994), p. 265.
16. QED, p. 449.
17. WEB, 68.
18. QED, p. 522.
19. Kaiser, p. 94.
20. QED, p. 552; Disturbing, p. 74.
21. QED, p. 550; Kaiser, p. 79.
22. Kaiser, p. 81.
23. Gleick, Genius, p. 272.
24. Abraham Pais, J. Robert Oppenheimer: A Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), p. 117.
25. FJD, obituary of Edward Teller, National Academy of Sciences, 2007.
26. QED, p. 527.
27. Kaiser, p. 79.
28. AIP.
29. QED, p. 526.
30. The Bethe-Peierls Correspondence, p. 288.
31. WEB, 80.
32. VHD.
33. QED, pp. 487–88.
34. Ibid., p. 503.
35. Disturbing, p. 75.
36. VHD.
37. PFS interview with Cécile Morette.
5. RECESSIONAL
1. The Bethe-Peierls Correspondence, p. 347.
2. QED, p. 556.
3. Kaiser, p. 97.
4. Ibid., p. 111.
5. Ibid., p. 139.
6. Ibid., p. 158.
7. QED, p. 554.
8. Ibid., p. 556.
9. Rudolf Peierls, Bird of Passage: Recollections of a Physicist (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989), p. 292.
10. WEB, 90.
11. Ibid., 88.
12. VHD.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. Wedding announcement card, IAS archive.
17. VHD.
18. Ibid.
19. Peierls, Bird of Passage, p. 226.
20. Selected, p 15.
21. QED, p. 566.
22. Selected, p. 15.
23. QED, p. 567.
24. WEB, 92.
25. QED, p. 567.
26. PT, August 2006.
27. VHD.
28. PFS interview with Steven Weinberg.
29. Kaiser, p. 82.
30. Actually, many years later the quantum notes were assembled into book form and published: FJD, Advanced Quantum Mechanics, transcribed by David Derbes (Singapore: World Scientific, 2007).
31. PFS interview with Mosur K. Sundaresan.
32. FJD in PT, September 1952.
33. Jacob Bronowski, The Visionary Eye: Essays in the Arts, Literature, and Science (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1979), p. 23.
34. FJD in SA, April 1953, September 1954, September 1958, September 1964.
35. FJD in SA, September 1964.
36. FJD in Nature, 22 January 2004.
37. WEB, 99.
38. Mehra, The Beat of a Different Drum, p. 578.
39. Letter from J. Robert Oppenheimer to FJD, December 8, 1952, IAS archives, Oppenheimer papers.
40. WEB, 99.
41. Selected, p. 19.
42. FJD in PT, September 1967.
6. NUCLEAR OPERA
1. George B. Dyson, Darwin Among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence (New York: Perseus, 1997), p. 111.
2. Richard A. Muller, Physics and Technology for Future Presidents: An Introduction to the Essential Physics Every World Leader Needs to Know (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010), p. 152.
3. FJD in Science, 20 August 1976.
4. Ed Regis, Who Got Einstein’s Office? Eccentricity and Genius at the Institute for Advanced Study (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1987), p. 139.
5. Disturbing, p. 91.
6. Ibid., p. 90.
7. Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (New York: Knopf, 2005), p. 534.
8. WEB, 97.
9. Bird and Sherwin, American Prometheus, p. 548.
10. Regis, Who Got Einstein’s Office?, p. 150.
11. Ibid., p. 191.
12. Lee Smolin, The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007), p. 49.
13. “Remembering Gödel,” by Paul Benacerraf, IAS, http://www.ias.edu/people/godel/remembering.
14. The story of von Neumann’s computer is told in George B. Dyson, Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe (New York: Pantheon, 2012); additional remarks thereon at a public interview of George Dyson and Freeman Dyson conducted at the 92nd Street Y, New York City, March 15, 2012.
15. Selected, p. 21.
16. Ibid., p. 22.
17. FJD profile in SA, August 1993.
18. PT, June 2002.
19. FJD in SA, September 1954.
20. FJD in SA, September 1958.
21. VHD.
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid.
24. Disturbing, p. 92.
25. Anita Burdman Feferman and Solomon Feferman, Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), p. 225.
26. VHD.
27. Ibid.
28. Ibid.
29. QED, p. 459.
30. Pais, J. Robert Oppenheimer, p. 103.
31. VHD.
32. Ibid.
33. PFS interview with Katarina Halm.
34. Ibid.
35. VHD.
7. INTRINSICALLY SAFE
1. VHD.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Orion, p. 67.
5. John McPhee, The Curve of Binding Energy (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1973; paperback, 1980), p. 79.
6. Disturbing, p. 96.
7. WEB, 114.
8. Disturbing, p. 102.
9. Nuclear News, November 2003.
10. Disturbing, p. 42.
11. Ibid., p. 46.
12. Orion, p. 44.
13. Disturbing, p. 103.
14. Infinite, p. 145.
15. Ibid., p. 146.
16. Imagined, p. 34.
17. Disturbing, p. 104.
18. Orion, p. 112.
19. VHD.
> 20. IAS archive, office of the director, box 6.
21. Francis Crick, What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery (New York: Basic, 1988), p. xi.
22. VHD.
23. Verena Huber-Dyson, in Kreisliana: About and Around Georg Kreisel, Piergiorgio Odifreddi, ed. (Wellesley, MA: A. K. Peters, 1996), p. 57. When the editor of this Kreisel celebratory book showed Verena Huber-Dyson’s remark to Freeman Dyson, he responded with a short note, which he allowed to be included in the volume, as if it were any other contribution to the collection of Kreisel accolades. The one assertion of Verena’s that Freeman chose to rebut, the lone objection he cared to make against his former wife’s charges, was the one about the mathematics competition at Cambridge. There was no rivalry, Freeman Dyson claimed. He and Kreisel had different interests and had been mentored by different famous mathematicians. There needn’t have been any vendetta on that score.
24. VHD.
25. Verena Huber-Dyson in Kreisliana, p. 59.
26. VHD.
27. Ibid.
28. PFS interview with IJ.
29. VHD.
30. Feferman and Feferman, Alfred Tarski, p. 226.
31. VHD.
32. Selected, p. 24.
8. SPACE TRAVELER’S MANIFESTO
1. Eros, p. 3.
2. WEB, 115.
3. Orion, p. 35.
4. Selected, p. 26.
5. FJD in Perspectives in Modern Physics: Essays in Honor of Hans A Bethe, Robert Marshak, ed. (New York: Interscience, 1966), p. 641.
6. VHD.
7. Starship, p. 56.
8. McPhee, The Curve of Binding Energy, p. 174.
9. Starship, p. 62.
10. Ibid., p. 65.
11. FJD letter to J. Robert Oppenheimer, 4 July 1958, IAS archives, office of the director, box 6.
12. Starship, p. 221.
13. VHD.
14. Ibid.
15. FJD letter to J. Robert Oppenheimer, 7 September 1958, IAS archives, office of the director, box 6.
16. VHD.
17. Ibid.
18. FJD letter to J. Robert Oppenheimer, 23 October 1958, IAS archives, office of the director, box 6.
19. PFS Interview with IJ.
20. VHD.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
23. FJD letter to Oppenheimer, 23 October 1958, IAS archives, office of the director, box 6.
24. VHD.
25. FJD letter to J. Robert Oppenheimer, 7 November 1958, Library of Congress, Oppenheimer papers.
26. Ibid.
27. VHD.
28. Feferman and Feferman, Alfred Tarski, p. 228.
29. FJD letter to J. Robert Oppenheimer, 16 November 1958, Library of Congress, Oppenheimer papers.
30. Disturbing, p. 112.
31. Orion, p. 87.
32. Disturbing, p. 111.
33. Orion, p. 105.
34. Ibid., p. 230.
35. Disturbing, p. 115.
36. Ibid., p. 128.
37. Ibid., p. 114.
38. Ibid., p. 128.
9. CIVILIZED BEHAVIOR
1. Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men and Star Maker: 2 Science Fiction Novels (New York: Dover, paperback 1968; Last and First Men, originally published, 1931, Star Maker originally published 1937), p. 118.
2. Leslie Fiedler, Olaf Stapledon: A Man Divided (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983), p. viii.
3. Patrick A. McCarthy, Olaf Stapledon (Boston: Twayne, 1982), p. 141.
4. Nature, 19 September 1959.
5. WEB, 137.
6. Science, 3 June 1960.
7. Marshak, ed., Perspectives in Modern Physics, p. 50.
8. Stapledon, Last and First Men and Star Maker, p. 365.
9. Disturbing, p. 213.
10. FJD letter to J. Robert Oppenheimer, 9 May 1960, Library of Congress, Oppenheimer papers.
11. Disturbing, p. 209.
12. Kenneth Clark, Civilisation (New York: Harper & Row, 1969), p. 1.
13. Ibid., p. 4.
14. Disturbing, p. 212.
15. Ibid., p. 210.
16. Marshak, ed., Perspectives in Modern Physics, p. 652.
17. Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 6, episode 4, aired 12 October 1992.
18. Selected, p. 27.
19. Project Cyclops: A Design Study for Detecting Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life, Stanford/NASA/Ames Research Center summer faculty fellowship program in engineering design, 1971, Bernard M. Oliver and John Billingham, codirectors, p. 178.
20. Disturbing, p. 192.
21. Carl Sagan, Astrophysical Journal, vol. 144, p. 1216 (1966).
22. W&H, p. 66.
23. Orion, p. 221.
24. Science, 9 July 1965.
25. Ibid.
26. McPhee, The Curve of Binding Energy, p. 173.
27. Disturbing, p. 188.
28. Ibid., p. 189.
10. NUCLEAR MANIFESTO
1. Glenn T. Seaborg, Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Test Ban (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981), p. 151.
2. W&H, p. 184.
3. Disturbing, p. 197.
4. Ibid., p. 135.
5. Ibid., p. 132.
6. Herman Kahn, On Thermonuclear War: Three Lectures and Several Suggestions (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1960), p. 20.
7. Ibid., p. 597.
8. Ibid., p. 145.
9. FJD in PT, November 1962; reprinted in Eros, p. 203.
10. W&H, p. 34.
11. Seaborg, Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Test Ban, p. 175.
12. Disturbing, p. 6.
13. Ibid., p. 131.
14. FJD in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September 1961.
15. Ibid., March 1962.
16. Science, 23 March 1962.
17. Seaborg, Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Test Ban, p. 205.
18. Disturbing, p. 139.
19. Seaborg, Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Test Ban, p. 197.
20. Disturbing, p. 141.
21. New York Times, 10 August 1963.
22. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September 1963.
11. ON THE OREGON TRAIL
1. Dyson and the others present on that occasion have over the years provided accounts of the event without naming the general: in Ann Finkbeiner’s The Jasons: The Secret History of Science’s Postwar Elite (New York: Viking, 2006), p. 94; in AIP oral history of FJD; in Dyson’s book Disturbing the Universe, p. 149; and in the report by the Nautilus Institute, www.nautilus.org/archives/VietnamFOIA/press.html. Dyson specifically refers to the general as Maxwell Taylor in WEB, 128.
2. Finkbeiner, The Jasons, p. xii.
3. AIP.
4. Disturbing, p. 50.
5. Report obtained by the Nautilus Institute through the Freedom of Information Act, 4 December 2002; see also Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May/June 2003.
6. Finkbeiner, The Jasons, p. 92.
7. Ibid., p. 103.
8. PFS interview with Steven Weinberg.
9. FJD in PT, April 1973.
10. Disturbing, p. 155.
11. Horace W. Babcock, Science, 20 July 1990.
12. PFS interview with Richard Muller.
13. FJD in Journal of the Optical Society of America, May 1975.
14. WEB, 127.
15. Finkbeiner, The Jasons, p 158.
16. Selected, p. 42.
17. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Fourth Assessment Report: Climate Change 2007.
18. Eros, 239.
19. Ibid., p. 136.
20. FJD in Energy, vol. 2, p. 287 (1977).
21. Selected, p. 44.
22. PFS interview with Henry Abarbanel.
12. SUCCESS IN LIFE
1. FJD in Science, 29 October 1965; reprinted in Eros, p. 113.
2. Chen Ning Yang, Select Papers, 1945–1980 (San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1983), p. 65.
3. PFS interview with Frank Wilczek.
4. Murray Gell-Mann interview on “Web of Stories,” http
://www.webofstories.com/people/murray.gell-mann;jsessionid=730D114463047B5AE1D0EBEFF9E2F9C9.
5. Eros, p. 339.
6. PFS interview with Mia Dyson.
7. VHD.
8. PFS interview with George Dyson.
9. PFS interview with IJ.
10. PFS interview with George Dyson.
11. PFS interview with Rebecca Dyson.
12. PFS interview with IJ.
13. PFS interview with Mia Dyson.
14. VHD.
15. WEB, 31.
16. PFS interview with Esther Dyson.
17. Pais, J. Robert Oppenheimer, p. 296.
18. Rebel, p. 241.
19. PFS interview with Steven Weinberg.
20. John Aristotle Phillips and David Michaelis, Mushroom: The Story of the A-Bomb Kid (New York: Morrow, 1978), p. 87.
21. Disturbing, p. 164.
22. Ibid.
23. Selected, p. 30.
24. Ibid., p. 28.
25. WEB, 104; Selected, p. 31.
26. Selected, p. 38.
27. PFS interview with Andrew Leonard.
28. Selected, p. 32.
29. Ibid., p. 35.
30. Ibid., p. 34.
31. Eros, p. 118.
32. Ibid., p. 129.
33. WEB, 134.
34. Selected, p. 38.
35. Ibid.
36. PFS interview with FJD.
13. SCIENCE AND SUBLIME
1. Disturbing, p. 240.
2. Starship, p. 247.
3. Ibid., p. 248.
4. Ibid., p. 255.
5. Disturbing, p. 243.
6. Ibid., p. vii.
7. Selected, p. 43.
8. Eros, p. vii.
9. Disturbing, p. 5
10. New Republic, 18 August 1979.
11. Science, 9 November 1979.
12. Steven Weinberg, The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe (New York: Basic, 1977), p. 154.
13. Disturbing, p. 251.
14. Ibid., p. 250.
15. Ibid., p. 258.
16. George B. Dyson, Baidarka (Edmonds, WA: Northwest Publishing Company, 1986).
17. Disturbing, p. 257.
18. Ibid., p. 258.
19. Ibid., p. 261.
20. WEB, 152.
21. PFS interview with Rebecca Dyson.
22. PFS interview with Richard Askey.
23. Infinite, p. 35.
24. Ibid.
25. Eros, p. 173.
26. Ibid., p. 335.
27. Ibid., p. 299.
28. Infinite, p. 243.
29. FJD, Foreword to The Ultimate Quotable Einstein, Alice Calaparice, ed. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011), p. xv.
30. Infinite, p. 230.
31. Ibid., p. 3.
32. Ibid., p. 125.
33. Ibid., p. 180.
34. FJD in NYT, 5 April 1987.
35. FJD in PT, February 1988.
36. Eros, p. 278
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