Atom Quotes

318 quotes by 236 authors

An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom, and pushes the… — Johannes Stark
The removal of an electron from the surface of an atom - that is, the ionization of the atom - means a fundamental structural change… — Johannes Stark
The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness. — Harry S. Truman
The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb. — Diana Vreeland
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms. — George Wald
I was having a conversation with my father and he was talking about this thing - strangeness and charm. It's actually the name of the… — Florence Welch
The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of… — Elwyn Brooks White
The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't. — Mao Zedong
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled… — Jack London
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods… — Albert Camus
I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a… — S. J. Perelman
Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear. — Charlotte Bronte
I'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together so tight that… — Philip Pullman
Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality. — Bill Bryson
It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to… — William S. Burroughs
What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice. — Albert Einstein
It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a… — Bill Bryson
You know, 'power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely?' It's the same with powerlessness. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. Einstein said everything had changed since the… — Studs Terkel
An atom-blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways. — Isaac Asimov

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