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> [I, who had been in favour of nuclear energy for generating electricity ... I suddenly realised that anybody who has a nuclear reactor can extract the plutonium from the reactor and make nuclear weapons, so that a country which has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-oliphant/i-who-had-been-in-favour-of-nuclear-energy-for-generating-electricity/)

[Mark Oliphant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-oliphant/)

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## More by Mark Oliphant

> [It was essential to do this job, hateful though it was, because we knew the Germans were hot on the trail.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-oliphant/it-was-essential-to-do-this-job-hateful-though-it-was-because-we-knew/)

[Mark Oliphant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-oliphant/)

> [I, who had been in favour of nuclear energy for generating electricity ... I suddenly realised that anybody who has a nuclear reactor can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-oliphant/i-who-had-been-in-favour-of-nuclear-energy-for-generating-electricity/)

[Mark Oliphant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-oliphant/)

> [Going after the unknown is always fascinating, I think. It becomes part of your life, this desire to know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-oliphant/going-after-the-unknown-is-always-fascinating-i-think-it-becomes-part/)

[Mark Oliphant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-oliphant/)

> [I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-oliphant/i-lost-my-hair-mixing-a-substance-called-white-gunpowder-on-the/)

[Mark Oliphant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-oliphant/)

> [I believe that science is best left to scientists, that you cannot have managers or directors of science, it's got to be carried out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-oliphant/i-believe-that-science-is-best-left-to-scientists-that-you-cannot/)

[Mark Oliphant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-oliphant/)

> [I worked with him for ten years until he died and it was the most wonderful time of my life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-oliphant/i-worked-with-him-for-ten-years-until-he-died-and-it-was-the-most/)

[Mark Oliphant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-oliphant/)

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