There’s nothing good about an atomic reaction,

“How come I can’t make her happy, how come she can’t make me happy? Simple: the atomic reaction you expect isn’t taking place, the…

— Julian Barnes

No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy].

— Edward Victor Appleton

The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.

— George Wald

The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.

— C. V. Raman

The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?

— Bennett Cerf

The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Hiroshima and Nagasaki were atomized at a time when the Japanese were suing desperately for peace. ”

— David Dellinger

There is a tic and toc in atomic.

— Rush

Alice Munro is an atomic writer blasting doors into narrative time.

— David Means

Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.

— Oliver Sacks

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

— Omar N. Bradley

“Master radiation and you will be able to master modern human illnesses and diseases.”

— Steven Magee

The atomic weapons race and the secrecy surrounding it crushed American democracy. It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice.…

— Stewart Udall

“The void is 'not-being,' and no part of 'what is' is a 'not-being,'; for what 'is' in the strict sense of the term is…

— Aristotle

If our inconceivably ancient universe even had any beginning, the conditions determining that beginning must even now be engraved in the atomic weights.

— Theodore William Richards