From SARA TULLOCH
I was delighted to read that Ariadne had chosen to write about the Oxford
Dictionary of Quotations (Ariadne, 21 September), but rather surprised by
her criticisms.
The quotation she notes as missing (Einstein’s remark that God does
not play dice) is in the third edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
published in 1979; and if she consults the Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations
published earlier this year she will find this quotation set in its longer
context, as well as a further selection of quotations from Einstein. This
is the appropriate place to look for twentieth-century quotations in general.
In this dictionary she will find a number of other modern scientists, including
Konrad Lorenz, Poincare, J. B. S. Haldane, Werner Heisenberg, Sir James
Jeans, Sir Julian Huxley, Ernest Rutherford and Bertrand Russell.
Sara Tulloch Oxford University Press Oxford
