Atomic Quotes

261 quotes by 200 authors

With crystals we are in a situation similar to an attempt to investigate an optical grating merely from the spectra it produces... But a knowledge… — Max von Laue
Typical of the fundamental scientific problems whose solution should lead to important industrial consequences are, for example, the release of atomic energy, which experiment has… — Arthur Compton
At a certain stage of our progressive attainment, every Initiate undergoes an "Illumination by Sound" in which the Music of the Spheres becomes to us… — Corinne Heline
Since I do not forsee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the… — Albert Einstein
Mankind has always drawn from outside sources of energy. This island was the first to harness coal and steam. But our present sources stand in… — Frederick Soddy
The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century. — Philip Shabecoff
A bright light filled the plane. The first shock-wave hit us. We were eleven and a half miles slant range from the atomic explosion but… — Paul Tibbets
With laissez-faire and price atomic, Ecology's Uneconomic, But with another kind of logic Economy's Unecologic. — Kenneth E. Boulding
Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb. You know the ones:… — Janet Fitch
Now we see evolutionary trends in a variety of areas ranging from atomic and molecular physics through fluid mechanics, chemistry and biology to large scale… — Ilya Prigogine
To have security against atomic bombs and against the other biological weapons, we have to prevent war, for if we cannot prevent war every nation… — Albert Einstein
It is my thesis that flying saucers are real and that they are space ships from another solar system. I think that they possibly are… — Hermann Oberth
Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation. . . . Let… — Bernard Baruch
Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the… — Thomas A. Edison
No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the fridge full of… — William S. Burroughs
Atoms for peace. Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on earth. [Message tapped out by Sarnoff using a telegraph key in… — David Sarnoff
All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper… — Mao Zedong
Unless Americans come to realize that they are not stronger in the world because they have the bomb but weaker because of their vulnerability to… — Albert Einstein
My dream is to drop three atomic bombs on New York City. — Raul Castro
The observer and the universe are part of the same universe. It's what science discovered at the beginning of this century, when they say you… — Jean-Luc Godard

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