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“Electrons and photons are still worse. In graduate school I roomed for a time with a particle physicist. He ended one attempt to explain…

— Steven Vogel

“The Fukushima nuclear complex went on to become the worst man-made engineering disaster in all of human history, outside of war.”

— Steven Magee

“in the heat of unprecedented technological breakthroughs it is easy to think that we are invincible, like gods who would rule the world. But…

— Hal Zina Bennett

There are good reasons why we don't want everyone to learn nuclear physics, medicine or how financial markets work. Our entire modern project has…

— Evgeny Morozov

Pablo Picasso said, "Art is the lie that tells the truth," and it's not a terribly radical statement. It's always been that you can…

— Momus

“Over the next 300 years, the Afro-Asian giant swallowed up all the other worlds. It consumed the Mesoamerican World in 1521, when the Spanish…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The scientists who made the atomic bomb are, in my sense, people with a tragic destiny. You know, there was the US race with…

— Robert Jay Lifton

Although important nuclear physics work was to go on in laboratories such as ours had become - and we had to cut down to…

— John Henry Carver

“To achieve historical creativity many other conditions must be met. For instance, you must be lucky, for to excel in some domains you might…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

It's not nuclear physics. You always remember that. But if you write about sports long enough, you're constantly coming back to the point that…

— Tom Callahan

When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my…

— John Cameron

The most important advances, the qualitative leaps, are the least predictable. Not even the best scientists predicted the impact of nuclear physics, and everyday…

— Martin Rees