Sex is like an atom bomb. A potent weapon which fascinates and frightens. We're afraid to let it loose, yet we all… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
It is only when science asks why, instead of simply describing how, that it becomes more than technology. When it asks why,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Radio - and perhaps airplanes, and then of course, the atom bomb - was the preeminent technology of the first half of… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Just as dogs love to chew bones, the mind loves to get its teeth into problems. That's why it does crossword puzzles… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments,… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
“Dr. Eklund was utterly dumbfounded. Did the prime minister think that a waiter who had dropped out of school before he was… — Jonas Jonasson Copy Share Image
New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
Nuclear scientists lost their innocence when we used the atom bomb for the very first time. So we could argue computer scientists… — Mikko Hypponen Copy Share Image
“Beyond aspects of pain that are physical, thought Oppenheimer, sickness or injury or privation, beyond the so-called obvious, suffering can be a… — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
“Dear, Missus, Mister - I beg you never to give thoughts to war, in no way, not to work for it, not… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
I'm not the sort of fellow who does the same thing all the time. I began using a lot of science fiction… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
There was nothing the matter with me that was not also the matter with everyone else. I was not as interesting as… — J. D. Daniels Copy Share Image
The atom bomb was no “great decision.” It was used in the war, and for your information, there were more people killed… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
“Spring is here, even in London N.1, and they can’t stop you from enjoying it,” he wrote in April 1946. “The atom… — Thomas E Ricks Copy Share Image
“No zek had the right to stay one second in his workroom without the supervision of a free employee because prudence dictated… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“If we do not stop these mar-makers not,...it will soon be too late. We are the only nation that can halt this… — James Aldridge Copy Share Image
“America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing. America two dollars and twentyseven cents January 17, 1956. I can’t stand my… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“Unspoken Truths (The Sonnet) Democracy is people-approved dictatorship, Military is people-approved genocide. Atom bombs are people-approved armageddon, In conscience-court all guilty of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The most striking impression was that of an overwhelming bright light. I had seen under similar conditions the explosion of a large… — Emilio Segrè Copy Share Image
“A brick could be used to show you how to live a richer, fuller, more satisfying life. Don’t you want to have… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“I do not know the substance of the considerations and recommendations which Dr. Szilárd proposes to submit to you,” Einstein wrote. “The… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
The use of [the atomic bombs] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese… — William D. Leahy Copy Share Image
“Contrary to Stimson’s highly influential but totally misleading account in Harper’s in February 1947, “The Decision to Use the Atom Bomb”—written for… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
Time travel is a terrifying weapon, far more powerful than anything ever before conceived,' he said grimly.'Mankind just isn't ready for that… — Alex Scarrow Copy Share Image
Atom bombs, something's wrong. D.E.A sent to Guam. Acid Trips, big fat chics. Purple Finstone Vitamins.All the needy rich are greedy. I… — Chester Bennington Copy Share Image
It's Christmas at Ground Zero The button has been pressed The radio Just let us know That this is not a test… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If my comrades are not destined to rule the world, then away with it! A shower of atom bombs upon it and… — Savitri Devi Copy Share Image
“The atom bomb wasn’t used in Korea,” Father contributed. They really didn’t see it. “America planned to use the bomb,” she insisted.… — Jane Davis Copy Share Image
Had we adopted non-violence as the weapon of the strong, because we realised that it was more effective than any other weapon,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Knowing he [Bob Serber] was going to the [first atom bomb] test, I asked him how he planned to deal with the… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
“We'll fight back, we'll fight back, we'll fight back," a man near Doctor Stockstill was chanting. Stockstill looked at him in astonishment,… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“She supposed the young colored men of Link's generation couldn't have manners like Mr. Powther's, though she didn't know why. Wars and… — Ann Petry Copy Share Image
“Everything could undergo conversion except the artists. How can you convert disorganizers of past and present order, the chronic dissenters, those dispossessed… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated with the attitude of younger rock bands, even ones that are making money at it. I don't ever hear them… — Travis Morrison Copy Share Image
The most fearful phenomenon of these midcentury years is not the atom bomb; atomic energy does have its constructive possibilities… The most… — Wheeler McMillen Copy Share Image
“In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In this age of space flight, when we use the modern tools of science to advance into new regions of human activity,… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
What is superstition , but misguided, unobjective science? And when it comes down to that, is it to be wondered if people… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
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