Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Atom Quotes

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. 
Albert Einstein 

The atom bomb was no "great decision." It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness. 
Harry S. Truman 

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world. 
Blaise Pascal 

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. 
Jack London 

Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom? 
Lord Byron 

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun. 
George Orwell 

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

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent. 
Charles de Gaulle 

The savages don't have atom bombs. 
Friedrich Durrenmatt 

An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom, and pushes the former to one side, and the latter in the other direction. 
Johannes Stark 

The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't. 
Mao Tse-Tung 

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance. 
E. B. White 

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount. 
Omar N. Bradley 

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms. 
George Wald 

Until four years ago, in fact, I was absolutely in love with the atom. 
David R. Brower 

I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams. 
David R. Brower 

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms. 
George Wald 

It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self. 
Muhammad Iqbal 

But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction. 
Joseph Rotblat 

The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis of political and military perceptions. 
Joseph Rotblat


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 signalled somebody in a dimension which is sharing space with us very closely. 
Dwight Schultz 


The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.
Ralph Merkle 

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. 
Jackson Pollock 

The discovery of various phenomena has led to a recognition of the fact that the chemical atom is an individual which again is itself made up of several units into a selfcontained whole. 
Johannes Stark 

By recognizing that the chemical atom is composed of single separable electric quanta, humanity has taken a great step forward in the investigation of the natural world. 
Johannes Stark 

We have learnt through experience that when an electrical ray strikes the surface of an atom, an electron, and in some circumstances a second and even a third electron, can be detached. 
Johannes Stark 

If the experimental physicist has already done a great deal of work in this field, nevertheless the theoretical physicist has still hardly begun to evaluate the experimental material which may lead him to conclusions about the structure of the atom. 
Johannes Stark

The removal of an electron from the surface of an atom - that is, the ionization of the atom - means a fundamental structural change in its surface layer. 
Johannes Stark 

In my view the structure of the whole atom was that of an individual, with all its parts interconnected, and the emission of a spectral line appeared to me to be the result of the coherence and co-operation of several electric quanta. 
Johannes Stark 

Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size, and occupies space. 
Orson Pratt 

Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write primitive adventures on that. 
Graham Nelson 

There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls. 
Adlai Stevenson 

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. 
Jack London 

On the basis of Lorentz's theory, if we limit ourselves to a single spectral line, it suffices to assume that each atom (or molecule) contains a single moving electron. 
Pieter Zeeman 

Leave the atom alone. 
E. Y. Harburg 

There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world. 
Paul Dirac 

The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb. 
Rene Magritte 

For it goes without saying that this great recognition at this time will aid tremendously our efforts to find the necessarily large funds for the next voyage of exploration farther into the depths of the atom. 
Ernest Lawrence 

It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil. 
Gerard De Nerval 

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God. 
Henry Adams


We hope that this honor you have done us will bring the time of further realization of these benefits closer and will help all mankind to live better and be happier through the atom and isotopes. 
Willard Libby 


The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom. 
Willard Libby 

Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties. 
James Jeans 

Publishing a protocol under the name Atom that tries to capture all of the prior art in this stage and might provide a good basis for winding down the syndication wars. 
Tim Bray 

Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom. 
Jimmy Greaves 

We may say that a basic substance is one which has a lone pair of electrons which may be used to complete the stable group of another atom, and that an acid is one which can employ a lone pair from another molecule in completing the stable group of one of its own atoms. 
Gilbert Newton Lewis 

I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened. 
Lanford Wilson 

We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a ruby laser whose wavelength is close to that of a transition of the potassium atom. 
Alfred Kastler

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