Fridges Quote by William S. Burroughs

Leave the atom alone.

— Anonymous

Personally I think there is no doubt that sub-atomic energy is available all around us, and that one day man will release and control…

— Francis William Aston

“The news today about "Atomic bombs" is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to do such…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed, the human…

— Francis William Aston

Physicists are atoms' way of thinking about atoms.

— Bill Bryson

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is…

— George Wald

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

— Niels Bohr

No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy].

— Edward Victor Appleton

The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work…

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Perhaps the nuclear physicists have come so near to the ultimate secrets that He thinks it time to bring their activities to a stop.…

— Bertrand Russell

“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

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

— Pablo Picasso