Age Quote by John Hersey

“We were members of a research group with a great interest in nuclear physics and totally devoted to this branch of science--and ironically we…

— Takashi Nagai

“The atom was split by persistence.”

— Walter Kirn

“Long ago when they first invented the atomic bomb people used to worry about its going off and killing everybody, but they didn't know…

— John Cheever

The kingdoms of Africa and Mesopotamia, machine gunning your body with depleted uranium, this is the age of microchips and titanium, the dark side…

— Immortal Technique

“in the forty-five years centered on 1910, the nature of the atom was first understood—partly by shooting pieces of atoms at atoms and watching…

— Carl Sagan

In the end, this is a difficult story to sum up. The making of the atomic bomb is one of history's most amazing examples…

— Steve Sheinkin

The thing I can't remember is, what came first? Us or the book?

— Michael De Luca

The atom was unleashed in 1946, right when all this stuff was occurring. And the bomb's incredible release of energy and light may have…

— Dwight Schultz

Once anthropology and geology had opened up the pre-recordkeeping darkness of humanity's long, slow, sustained infancy as suitable grounds for speculation, writers began trying…

— Paul Di Filippo

The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished,…

— Mark Helprin

“I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of…

— Albert Einstein

Human beings would split the atom and invent television, nylon, and instant coffee before they could figure out the age of their own planet.

— Bill Bryson