The epigraphs in *GR*

[jbor]

Good enough for me; thanks Basil. 

I believe I've read somewhere that the quote from Blackett is authentic.
Could well be from Blackett's ominously titled 1948 *Fear, War and the
Bomb*.

http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00016/bibs/9001002/90010136.ht
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The bio from the Nobel site would seem to confirm the sentiment, and is at:

http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1948/blackett-bio.html

best


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>From: "Basileios Drolias" <Basileios.Drolias at eurodyn.com>
>To: "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com>
>Subject: Re: The epigraphs in *GR*
>Date: Wed, Aug 16, 2000, 6:47 PM
>

>
> well, i recall finding the quote myself in a book in the science museum
> library (in lodnon). As i am now in greece its not easy to pop in and check
> again...
>
> on the other hand the quote i could never find was the blackett quote in the
> first pages of GR 'you cant run a war on a gasp of emotion' (or something
> similar. quoting from memory).