Atomic Quotes

261 quotes by 200 authors

It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure… — Barry Commoner
For kind of sophisticated art I'm interested in, the larger structural rebuke has to be so subtle that it has to be distributed at an… — Junot Diaz
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the… — Albert Einstein
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. — Albert Einstein
I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb. — Laura Hillenbrand
The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul. — Herbert Hoover
I always go back to Harry Truman: Should we drop an atomic bomb to save 100,000 lives? That's a hell of a decision to make.… — Lee Iacocca
The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation… — Lyndon B. Johnson
The magnitude of the atomic weight determines the character of the element, just as the magnitude of the molecule determines the character of a compound… — Dmitri Mendeleev
But so far, you know who's been violating the nuclear nonproliferation pact day and night? Those who signed it. Iran, Iraq, Libya and Iran violates… — Benjamin Netanyahu
When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
'It worked.' (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation). — J. Robert Oppenheimer
The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
I think that horror films have a very direct relationship to the time in which they're made. The films that really strike a film with… — Eli Roth
After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the… — Barney Ross
A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can… — Erwin Schrodinger
The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic… — Erwin Schrodinger
Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to manufacture uh, atomic… — Tom Udall

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