“Only half a dozen times . . .” Note from Evans, December 3, 2002.
“cosmologist and controversialist . . .”Nature, “Fred Hoyle (1915-2001),” September 17, 2001, p. 270.
“humans evolved projecting noses . . .” Gribbin and Cherfas, p. 190.
“continually creating new matter as it went.” Rees, p. 75.
“100 million degrees or more . . .” Bodanis, E = mc2, p. 187.
“99.9 percent of the mass of the solar system . . .” Asimov, Atom, p. 294.
“In just 200 million years . . .” Stevens, The Change in the Weather, p. 6.
“Most of the lunar material . . .”New Scientist supplement, “Firebirth,” August 7, 1999, unnumbered page.
“first proposed in the 1940s by Reginald Daly.” Powell, Night Comes to the Cretaceous, p. 38.
“Earth might well have frozen over permanently” Drury, Stepping Stones, p. 144.
CHAPTER 4 THE MEASURE OF THINGS
“a long and productive career . . .” Sagan and Druyan, p. 52.
“a very specific and precise curve . . .” Feynman, Six Easy Pieces, p. 90.
“Hooke, who was well known . . .” Gjertsen, The Classics of Science, p. 219.
“betwixt my eye and the bone . . .” Quoted by Ferris in Coming of Age in the Milky Way, p. 106.
“told no one about it for twenty-seven years.” Durant and Durant, The Age of Louis XIV, p. 538.
“Even the great German mathematician Gottfried von Leibniz . . .” Durant and Durant, p. 546.
“one of the most inaccessible books ever written . . .” Cropper, The Great Physicists, p. 31.
“proportional to the mass of each . . .” Feynman, p. 69.
“Newton, as was his custom, contributed nothing.” Calder, The Comet Is Coming! p. 39.
“He was to be paid instead . . .” Jardine, Ingenious Pursuits, p. 36.
“within a scantling.” Wilford, The Mapmakers, p. 98.
“The Earth was forty-three kilometers stouter . . .” Asimov, Exploring the Earth and the Cosmos, p. 86.
“Unluckier still was Guillaume Le Gentil . . .” Ferris, Coming of Age in the Milky Way, p. 134.
“Mason and Dixon sent a note . . .” Jardine, p. 141.
“born in a coal mine . . .”Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 7, p. 1302.
“For convenience, Hutton had assumed . . .” Jungnickel and McCormmach, Cavendish, p. 449.
“it was Michell to whom he turned . . .” Calder, The Comet Is Coming! p. 71.
“to a ‘degree bordering on disease.’ ” Jungnickel and McCormmach, p. 306.
“talk as it were into vacancy.” Jungnickel and McCormmach, p. 305.
“foreshadowed ‘the work of Kelvin and G. H. Darwin . . . ’ ” Crowther, Scientists of the Industrial Revolution, pp. 214-15.
“two 350-pound lead balls . . .”Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 3, p. 1261.
“six billion trillion metric tons . . .”Economist, “G Whiz,” May 6, 2000, p. 82.
CHAPTER 5 THE STONE-BREAKERS
“Hutton was by all accounts . . .”Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 10, pp. 354-56.
“almost entirely innocent of rhetorical accomplishments . . .” Dean, James Hutton and the History of Geology, p. 18.
“He became a leading member . . .” McPhee, Basin and Range, p. 99.
“quotations from French sources . . .” Gould, Time’s Arrow, p. 66.
“A third volume was so unenticing . . .” Oldroyd, Thinking About the Earth, pp. 96-97.
“Even Charles Lyell . . .” Schneer (ed.), Toward a History of Geology, p. 128.
“In the winter of 1807 . . .” Geological Society papers: A Brief History of the Geological Society of London.
“The members met twice a month . . .” Rudwick, The Great Devonian Controversy, p. 25.
“(As even a Murchison supporter conceded . . . )” Trinkaus and Shipman, The Neandertals, p. 28.
“In 1794, he was implicated . . .” Cadbury, Terrible Lizard, p. 39.
“known ever since as Parkinson’s disease.”Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 15, pp. 314-15.
“convinced that Scots were feckless drunks.” Trinkaus and Shipman, p. 26.
“Once Mrs. Buckland found herself being shaken awake . . .” Annan, The Dons, p. 27.
“His other slight peculiarity . . .” Trinkaus and Shipman, p. 30.
“Often when lost in thought . . .” Desmond and Moore, Darwin, p. 202.
“but it was Lyell most people read . . .” Schneer, p. 139.
“and called for a new pack . . .” Clark, The Huxleys, p. 48.
“Never was there a dogma . . .” Quoted in Gould, Dinosaur in a Haystack, p. 167.
“He failed to explain . . .” Hallam, Great Geological Controversies, p. 135.
“the refrigeration of the globe . . .” Gould, Ever Since Darwin, p. 151.
“He rejected the notion . . .” Stanley, Extinction, p. 5.
“one yet saw it partially through his eyes . . .” quoted in Schneer, p. 288.
“De la Beche is a dirty dog . . .” Quoted in Rudwick, The Great Devonian Controversy, p. 194.
“the perky name of J. J. d’Omalius d’Halloy.” McPhee, In Suspect Terrain, p. 190.
“to employ ‘-synchronous’ for his endings . . .” Gjertsen, p. 305.
“in the ‘tens of dozens.’ ” McPhee, In Suspect Terrain, p. 50.
“Rocks are divided into quite separate units . . .” Powell, p. 200.
“I have seen grown men glow incandescent . . .” Fortey, Trilobite! p. 238.
“When Buckland speculated . . .” Cadbury, p. 149.
“The most well known early attempt . . .” Gould, Eight Little Piggies, p. 185.
“most thinking people accepted the idea . . .” Gould, Time’s Arrow, p. 114.
“No geologist of any nationality . . .” Rudwick, p. 42.
“Even the Reverend Buckland . . .” Cadbury, p. 192.
“between 75,000 and 168,000 years old.” Hallam, p. 105; and Ferris, Coming of Age in the Milky Way, pp. 246-47.
“the geological processes that created the Weald . . .” Gjertsen, p. 335.
“The German scientist Hermann von Helmholtz . . .” Cropper, p. 78.
“and written (in French and English) a dozen papers . . .” Cropper, p. 79.
“At the age of twenty-two he returned to Glasgow . . .”Dictionary of National Biography, supplement 1901-1911, p. 508.
CHAPTER 6 SCIENCE RED IN TOOTH AND CLAW
“who described it at a meeting . . .” Colbert, The Great Dinosaur Hunters and Their Discoveries, p. 4.
“the great French naturalist the Comte de Buffon . . .” Kastner, A Species of Eternity, p. 123.
“A Dutchman named Corneille de Pauw . . .” Kastner, p. 124.
“. . . in 1796 Cuvier wrote a landmark paper . . .” Trinkaus and Shipman, p. 15.
“Jefferson for one couldn’t abide the thought . . .” Simpson, Fossils and the History of Life, p. 7.
“On the evening of January 5, 1796 . . .” Harrington, Dance of the Continents, p. 175.
“The whys and wherefores . . .” Lewis, The Dating Game, pp. 17-18.
“Cuvier resolved the matter to his own satisfaction . . .” Barber, The Heyday of Natural History, p. 217.
“In 1806 the Lewis and Clark expedition . . .” Colbert, p. 5.
“the source for the famous tongue twister . . .” Cadbury, p. 3.