Atomic-science Quote by Ernest Rutherford

When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what it was about nuclear…

— Taylor Wilson

“This kind of event is so rare as to be the stuff of myth. Modern science has never managed to verify that it has…

— Christa Faust

“Oh how the world reflected you in its unending streams of atoms, churning atoms out of which significance beamed--significance, but not purpose.”

— Lydia Millet

I think that the discovery of antimatter was perhaps the biggest jump of all the big jumps in physics in our century.

— Werner Heisenberg

I've said it before about the Nobel Prize: it's like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected, unlooked for,…

— Seamus Heaney

I got into nuclear science when I was about 10 years old I was fascinated by the stuff. I was fascinated by the reactions…

— Taylor Wilson

“A nuclear flash started with a “fast-rising, short-duration pulse followed by a comparatively slow-rising long-duration pulse” as the fireball grew. Not even nature’s most…

— Garrett M. Graff

The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded.

— Lawrence M. Krauss

“If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the war. […

— Ernest Rutherford

I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made as it burst, the…

— Anonymous

“Self-discovery is among the greatest of discoveries, like atoms, electrons and neutrons, which cannot be seen but whose impact can either destroy billions of…

— Raj Suthar