Dr. Seuss

Question 5.15 What Is the Source of Dr. Seuss Green Eggs (and Ham) ... 

The following information may be slightly exaggerated, but everyone I meet tells me that Dr. Seuss s To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street was rej ected 24 times. Silence of the Lambs 28 times, Catch-22 21 times, and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance more than 100 times. Twenty publishers felt that Richard Bach s Jonathan Livingston Seagull was for the birds. It went on to sell millions of copies around the world. 

Dr. Seuss, Bartholomew and the Oobleck (New York Random House, 1976). 

Dr. Seuss s wonderful book Horton Hears A Who tells of the Whos of Whoville, a town on a speck of dust. They are too small to be seen and only Horton the elephant can hear them. Before the dust speck is boiled in oil, Horton exhorts the... 

This term has been adopted from a classic Dr Seuss children s book. 

There are probably more stories about lab incidents that caused, or nearly caused, injury to eyes than any other category of incident. Not surprisingly, splashes and explosions of chemicals can occur in any lab at any time. Because of this, perhaps the single most important safety rule in every chemistry lab is wear appropriate eye protection at all times. This section discusses exactly why this is so important, and how and why this rule sometimes gets violated. Like the cat in Dr. Seuss tales, keeping your eyes open (and working ) in chemistry labs is important ... 

Ted Geisel (Dr. Seuss). I Can Read with My Eyes Shut, Random House, New York, 1978. 

We will take him home. We will call him Clark. —Dr. Seuss... 

One of my favorite images from that era comes from a book written by Dr. Seuss The Cat in the Hat Comes Back Published a year before Feynman s famous lecture. The Cat in the Hat Comes Back involves a bunch of miniature cats produced from inside the hat of the Cat in the Hat. Figure 14.1 is an illustration from that book. The Cat in the Hat removes his hat to reveal a cat half his size standing on his head. Labeled Cat A, that half-size cat in turn reveals Cat B, half his own size under his hat, and so on, through the letters of the alphabet. So how small is that last cat, Cat Z ... 

Do you know that Dr. Seuss real name was Theodore Geisel and that our university library is named for him Just outside the library, there is a bronze statue of Geisel, with the Cat in the Hat standing just behind him looking over his shoulder. I measured that cat to be... 

---