Atomic Quotes
261 quotes by 200 authors
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We must expect the discovery of many as yet unknown elements-for example, elements analogous to aluminum and silicon- whose atomic weight would be between 65…
— Dmitri Mendeleev
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Nuclear abolition is the democratic wish of the world's people, and has been our goal almost since the dawn of the atomic age. Together, we…
— Desmond Tutu
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The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest lawsof atomic physics or even…
— Willard Van Orman Quine
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Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top…
— J D Salinger
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The paradox of knowledge is not confined to the small, atomic scale; on the contrary, it is as cogent on the scale of man, and…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Japan suffered terribly from the atomic bomb but never adopted a pose of moral superiority, implying: 'We would never have done it!' The Japanese know…
— George Mikes
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But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography.
— Michael Polanyi
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But Iran has gone far beyond what is necessary for a purely civilian programme. It has concealed several nuclear facilities from the International Atomic Energy…
— Anders Fogh Rasmussen
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Japan is the only country in the world to have suffered the ravages of atomic bombing. That experience left an indelible mark on the hearts…
— Eisaku Sato
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Many scientists will have to contribute to the solution of the great problem; they will have to follow up and measure all those phenomena in…
— Johannes Stark
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The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of different elements are…
— Johannes Stark
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This is the age of electrical energy. The age of atomic energy hasn't really dawned yet, not in the way that atomic energy has evolved…
— Frederick Lenz
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We are like an atomic structure. We've got a causal body that's linked together.
— Frederick Lenz
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The elements which are the most widely diffused have small atomic weights.
— Dmitri Mendeleev
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At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima,…
— John Hersey
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I've learned that next to the atomic bomb, the greatest danger is defeatism, despair, and inadequate awareness of what human beings possess. I feel that…
— Norman Cousins
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The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby; the sweet simple things in life. We have almost…
— Edward Steichen
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One summer day, while I was walking along the country road on the farm where I was born, a section of the stone wall opposite…
— John Burroughs
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Probably our atomic weights merely represent a mean value around which the actual atomic weights of the atoms vary within certain narrow limits... when we…
— William Crookes
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The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a…
— Niels Bohr
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