Atomic bomb Quotes

“New Mexico is home to the first atomic bomb exploded on USA soil.”

— Steven Magee

Scientology is the only specific (cure) for radiation (atomic bomb) burns.

— L. Ron Hubbard

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

— George Wald

“The world is the problem; the atomic bomb is the answer”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Somehow the world survived the Nazis, the atomic bomb, and modern music”

— Haruki Murakami

“It is only a matter of time before another nuclear bomb is detonated during war.”

— Steven Magee

We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids ?

— Isidor Isaac Rabi

If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

— Albert Einstein

As someone remarked, when told the new atomic bombs would explode without a bang, "they can't leave anything alone."

— Quentin Crisp

It is the large brain capacity which allows man to live as a human being, enjoy taxes, canned salmon, television, and the…

— Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald

The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.

— Philip Shabecoff

Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor.

— Neal Stephenson

We do not need an atomic bomb. The Iranian nation is wise. It won't build two atomic bombs while you have 20,000 warheads.

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

In the shadow of the atomic bomb it has become even more apparent that all men are, indeed, brothers.

— Albert Einstein

“The atomic bomb brings the men home from every quarter of the earth because the war is not so much over as…

— Sebastian Barry

The Japanese position was hopeless even before the first atomic bomb fell because the Japanese had lost control of their own air.

— Henry H. Arnold

In scientific matters there was a common language and one standard of values; in moral and political problems there were many. ……

— Emilio G. Segre

There are young people today who feel that we shouldn't have developed the atomic bomb, that it was a mistake. Through no…

— Glenn T. Seaborg

We're capable of understanding that someone has to drop an atomic bomb on a town of innocent civilians, but not that others…

— Anonymous

There has been a great deal said about a 3,00-mile high-angle rocket. The people who have been writing these things that annoy…

— Vannevar Bush

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not…

— Mao Zedong

If you have created the fifth generation of atomic bombs and are testing them already, what position are you in to question…

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The atomic bomb survivors... cannot wait another 50 years. Their highest hope is to see the abolition of nuclear weapons within their…

— Iccho Itoh

Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the…

— Anonymous

It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a…

— Winston Churchill

I want to make meditation an absolute for all students, whatever the subject they may be studying, so their awareness becomes more…

— Rajneesh

It is a damned sight easier to start wars than to end them. This truth has been stated for as long and…

— Malcolm Forbes

“In early 1945 Berg did go to Switzerland, as depicted here a bit earlier, to kill Heisenberg if necessary. Sitting in the…

— Gregory Benford

The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb,…

— Anonymous

In some ways more painful is the fact that their experience appears to be fading from the collective memory of humankind. Having…

— Tadatoshi Akiba

I was born in the middle of the Second World War when the United States dropped their atomic bombs in Hiroshima and…

— Isabel Allende

“The news today about "Atomic bombs" is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“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

“Castle Bravo had been built according to the “Teller-Ulam” scheme—named for its co-designers, Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam—which meant, unlike with the…

— Annie Jacobsen

“On the ethics of war the Quran and the New Testament are worlds apart. Whereas Jesus tells us to turn the other…

— Stephen Prothero

“Mrs. Winterson didn't want her body resurrected because she had never, ever loved it, not even for a single minute of a…

— Jeanette Winterson

“In 1967, the second resolution to the cat problem was formulated by Nobel laureate Eugene Wigner, whose work was pivotal in laying…

— Michio Kaku

“Some recent work by E. Fermi and L. Szilárd , which has been communicated to me in manuscript, leads me to expect…

— Albert Einstein

“It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most…

— Alan Moore

“Who wants to serve in a police vice squad, spending hours peeking into men’s johns to detect acts of homosexuality? Who wants…

— Alan W. Watts