20th century Quote by Philip Shabecoff

Atom Bomb: The invention to end all other inventions.

— Nikhil Saluja

It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

The three most disastrous inventions of our time have been the birth control pill, the camera and nuclear weaponry. The first offers sex in…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

I think one of the most groundbreaking inventions of all time is the jackhammer.

— Demetri Martin

I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in…

— Joseph Rotblat

“Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful. Because it is so powerful, the…

— Robert Shea

New technologies are rapidly giving rise to unprecedented methods of warfare. Innovations that yesterday were science fiction could cause catastrophe tomorrow, including nanotechnologies, combat…

— Peter Maurer

Want to know what’s more destructive than a nuclear bomb? Words.

— Kim Jong-un

New developments in weapon systems during the 1950s and early 1960s created a situation that was most dangerous, and even conducive to accidental war.

— Herman Kahn

Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic…

— James Buchan

I reckon that the Bailey Bridge and the bulldozer were the greatest advances in military engineering in the years between World War I and…

— Christopher Vokes

“Scientists expected that the Super, a fusion or "thermonuclear" weapon, would be an awesomely destructive horror that could unleash the equivalent of several million…

— James T. Patterson