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===Personality=== According to numerous reports Ryle was quick-thinking, impatient with those slower than himself and charismatic (pp 502, 508, 510 of<ref name="frs"/>). He was also idealistic (p 519 of<ref name="frs"/>), a characteristic he shared with his father (p 499 of,<ref name="frs"/><ref name="Ryle Papers Catalogue">[https://archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk/repositories/9/resources/1824 The Papers of Sir Martin Ryle at Churchill Archives Centre]</ref>). In an interview (p271 of<ref name="The Science Show">Williams R ed ''The Best of The Science Show''. Nelson, 1983.</ref>) in 1982 he said "At times one feels that one should almost have a car sticker saying 'Stop Science Now' because we're getting cleverer and cleverer, but we do not increase the wisdom to go with it." He was also intense and volatile (p 327 of<ref name="Kragh">Kragh, H. ''Cosmology and Controversy: the historical development of two theories of the universe''. Princeton University Press, 1996.</ref>), the latter characteristic being associated with his mother (p 499 of,<ref name="frs"/> Folder A.20 of<ref name="Ryle Papers Catalogue"/>). The historian Owen Chadwick described him as "a ''rare'' personality, of exceptional sensitivity of mind, fears and anxieties, care and compassion, humour and anger." (Folder A.28 of<ref name="Ryle Papers Catalogue"/>) Ryle was sometimes considered difficult to work with{{citation needed|date=November 2015}} β he often worked in an office at the [[Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory]] to avoid disturbances from other members of the [[Cavendish Laboratory]] and to avoid getting into heated arguments, as Ryle had a hot temper. Ryle worried that Cambridge would lose its standing in the radio astronomy community as other radio astronomy groups had much better funding, so he encouraged a certain amount of secrecy about his aperture synthesis methods in order to keep an advantage for the [[Cavendish Astrophysics Group|Cambridge group]]. Ryle had heated arguments with [[Fred Hoyle]] of the [[Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge|Institute of Astronomy]] about Hoyle's [[Steady state theory|steady state universe]], which restricted collaboration between the [[Cavendish Astrophysics Group|Cavendish Radio Astronomy Group]] and the [[Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge|Institute of Astronomy]] during the 1960s.{{citation needed|date=December 2017}} <!-- Ryle authored two short books on nuclear proliferation ('Politics of Nuclear Disarmament') where he argued that the only way to save the planet Earth from complete nuclear annihilation was to ban the use of any nuclear devices indefinitely. -->
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