Samuel Ing

“Returning from Germany to Italy in late summer of 1923, Fermi found his interest turning increasingly to statistical mechanics, a subject that would allow”
― Gino Segrè, The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age

“exhaustion”
― Ken Follett, The Key to Rebecca

“haven, a place to rest and get clean and whole”
― Ken Follett, The Key to Rebecca

“Heisenberg’s biographer, David Cassidy, posed a large and testing question about Heisenberg’s behaviour before and during the war: How was it possible that Werner Heisenberg, one of the most gifted of modern physicists, a man educated in the finest tradition of Western culture, who was neither a Nazi nor a Nazi supporter, how was it possible that such a man would not only choose to remain in National Socialist Germany for its entire twelve years of existence, but also actively seek a prominent academic position in Berlin at the height of the war, a position that included the scientific directorship of nuclear fission research for the German Army at war?56 It’s a question, obviously, that is asked in hindsight.”
― Michael Frayn, Copenhagen