Atomic Quotes
261 quotes by 200 authors
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It is going to be a long, hard haul; it will require patience, courage, faith that hangs on when hope fails, if we are to…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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There are only two states of consciousness that exist - the state of the ego and the state of love. The ego is the narrow…
— Rajneesh
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Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and atomic clock technology.
— Serge Haroche
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In Hiroshima, thirty days after the first atomic bomb destroyed the city and shook the world, people are still dying, mysteriously and horribly-people who were…
— Wilfred Burchett
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Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat…
— Wilfred Burchett
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It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so long as fractional…
— Francis William Aston
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There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.
— John Hersey
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We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes…
— Wilfred Burchett
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In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two…
— Boris Pasternak
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The time has come for those nations that rely on the force of nuclear armaments to respectfully heed the voices of peace-loving people, not least…
— Iccho Itoh
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So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to be so-called laws…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The launch of Nautilus, the world's first atomic submarine marked a transition in naval warfare-a transition as sudden as that associated with the Monitor.
— Waldemar Kaempffert
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If surrender could have been brought about in May, 1945, or even in June or July, before the entrance of Soviet Russia into the [Pacific]…
— Joseph Grew
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I believe that there have been civilisations in the past that were familiar with atomic energy, and that by misusing it they were totally destroyed.
— Frederick Soddy
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When God speaks, when the Word speaks, energy is translated into matter. What is atomic fission? It is matter translated back into energy—poof! it disappears.…
— J. Vernon McGee
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Where do we stand today compared to Greece circa 400 B.C.? Today's experiment-driven 'standard model' is not all that dissimilar to Democritus's speculative [sic] atomic…
— Leon M. Lederman
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It's ridiculous that time and time again we need a radioactive cloud coming out of a nuclear power-station to remind us that atomic energy is…
— Pierre Schaeffer
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The ending has to fit. The ending has to matter, and make sense. I could care less about whether it's happy or sad or atomic.…
— Carrie Jones
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Music is the celestial sound, and it is sound that controls the whole universe, not atomic vibrations. Sound energy, sound power, is much, much greater…
— Swami Satchidananda
Who Wrote These Atomic Quotes
200 authors contributed a total of 261 Atomic Quotes, led by these top contributors: