Fission Quotes

21 quotes by 18 authors

Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to… — James Buchan
Today, nothing is unusual about a scientific discovery's being followed soon after by a technical application: The discovery of electrons led to electronics; fission led… — Edward Teller
No-one really thought of fission before its discovery. — Lise Meitner
Don't get me wrong: I love nuclear energy! It's just that I prefer fusion to fission. And it just so happens that there's an enormous… — William McDonough
Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the… — Wilson Greatbatch
Most of us do not understand nuclear fission, but we accept it. I don't understand television, but I accept it. I don't understand radio, but… — Billy Graham
O. Hahn and F. Strassmann have discovered a new type of nuclear reaction, the splitting into two smaller nuclei of the nuclei of uranium and… — Lise Meitner
How wonderful it will be if we discover atomic fission. — L. Ron Hubbard
We can and should complain about certain horrors of the modern world, but when it comes to the treatment of mental illness, the advances made… — Rob Delaney
I must furnish those, who would protect or save life, with an energy source, which produces energy so cheaply that nuclear fission will not only… — Viktor Schauberger
In the design of fission reactors man was not an innovator but an unwitting imitator of nature. — George Cowan
When God speaks, when the Word speaks, energy is translated into matter. What is atomic fission? It is matter translated back into energyâ€”poof! it disappears.… — J. Vernon McGee
Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a… — Robert A. Heinlein
When all thermonuclear sources of energy are exhausted a sufficiently heavy star will collapse. Unless fission due to rotation, the radiation of mass, or the… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
The technologists claim that if everything works [in a nuclear fission reactor] according to their blueprints, fission energy will be a safe and very attractive… — Hannes Alfven
France generates a significant part of its energy requirements from fission reactors and these have achieved a perfect safety record. We build ours all differently. — Wilson Greatbatch
The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon… — Erich Fromm
It is impossible, except for theologians, to conceive of a world-wide scandal or a universe-wide scandal; the proof of this is the way people have… — Mary McCarthy
Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles,… — Wilson Greatbatch
My novels tend to come about from a fusion of two big ideas, creating a critical mass that then fissions, throwing off hundreds of other… — Will Self

Who Wrote These Fission Quotes

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