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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…

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Students using astrophysical textbooks remain essentially ignorant of even the existence of plasma concepts, despite the fact that some of them have…
I have never thought that you could obtain the extremely clumpy, heterogeneous universe we have today, strongly affected by plasma processes, from…
Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe. ... Every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology,…
I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals.
Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion…
We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has…
I was there when Abbe Georges Lemaître first proposed this [Big Bang] theory. ... There is no rational reason to doubt that…
Since religion intrinsically rejects empirical methods, there should never be any attempt to reconcile scientific theories with religion. [An infinitely old universe,…
It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
Gravitational systems are the ashes of prior electrical systems.
The technologists claim that if everything works [in a nuclear fission reactor] according to their blueprints, fission energy will be a safe…
We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into…

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Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been… — 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… — 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… — William McDonough
Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve… — 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… — Billy Graham
O. Hahn and F. Strassmann have discovered a new type of nuclear reaction, the splitting into two smaller nuclei of the nuclei… — 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,… — Rob Delaney
I must furnish those, who would protect or save life, with an energy source, which produces energy so cheaply that nuclear fission… — Viktor Schauberger
In the design of fission reactors man was not an innovator but an unwitting imitator of nature. — Unknown Author
When God speaks, when the Word speaks, energy is translated into matter. What is atomic fission? It is matter translated back into… — J. Vernon McGee

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