Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Atomic Quotes

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves. 
Mahatma Gandhi 

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. 
Albert Einstein 

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 the earth will be killed. 
Albert Einstein 

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare. 
Dwight D. Eisenhower 

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky. 
Lyndon B. Johnson 

A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement. 
Erwin Schrodinger 

Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb. 
Laura Hillenbrand 

One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice. 
Robert Morgan 

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism. 
Stephen Ambrose 

At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You know, we're having a little problem with waste these days.' I didn't know what he meant then, but I know now. 
David R. Brower 

Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime. 
George Wald 

It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance. 
Barry Commoner 

The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one. 
George Wald 

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul. 
Herbert Hoover 

After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war. 
Barney Ross 

I like the name Atomic Kitten. It's so great. 
Bryan Ferry 

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb. 
J. Robert Oppenheimer 

Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do. 
Lawrence Ferlinghetti 

But so far, you know who's been violating the nuclear nonproliferation pact day and night? Those who signed it. Iran, Iraq, Libya and Iran violates it while calling for Israel's destruction and racing to develop atomic weapons to that end. 
Benjamin Netanyahu 

One effect could be that the huge atomic arsenal created in the cold war could be reduced significantly. 
Gerhard Schroder


Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes. 
Wilfred Burchett 


Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope. 
John Boyd Orr 

One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb. 
Marcel Pagnol 

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking. 
Bill Vaughan 

A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe. 
Emily Greene Balch 

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country. 
J. Robert Oppenheimer 

Many scientists will have to contribute to the solution of the great problem; they will have to follow up and measure all those phenomena in which the atomic structure is directly expressed. 
Johannes Stark 

We can in fact first place the beam of rays of moving positive atomic ions in a plane perpendicular to the axis in which we see the spectral lines emitted by them. 
Johannes Stark 

Thus at the beginning of 1906 it seemed to be established that the emitters of the spectral series of chemical elements are their positive atomic ions. 
Johannes Stark 

The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of different elements are largely an expression of the peculiarity of their atomic structure - or, at least, of the structure of the surface. 
Johannes Stark 

We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These two heavy blows have fallen in quick succession upon the Japanese and there will be quite a little space before we intend to drop another. 
Henry L. Stimson 

"It worked." (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation). 
J. Robert Oppenheimer 

There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser. 
Eric Allin Cornell 

Certain characteristic properties of elements can be foretold from their atomic weights. 
Dmitri Mendeleev 

Elements which are similar as regards their chemical properties have atomic weights which are either of nearly the same value (eg. Pt, Ir, Os) or which increase regularly (eg. K, Ru, Cs). 
Dmitri Mendeleev 

The elements which are the most widely diffused have small atomic weights. 
Dmitri Mendeleev 

The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties. 
Dmitri Mendeleev 

The magnitude of the atomic weight determines the character of the element, just as the magnitude of the molecule determines the character of a compound body. 
Dmitri Mendeleev 

We must expect the discovery of many as yet unknown elements-for example, elements analogous to aluminum and silicon- whose atomic weight would be between 65 and 75. 
Dmitri Mendeleev 

But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography. 
Michael Polanyi


It's ridiculous that time and time again we need a radioactive cloud coming out of a nuclear power-station to remind us that atomic energy is extraordinarily dangerous. 
Pierre Schaeffer 


Morally, the world is both better and worse than it was. We are worse off than in the middle ages, or the 17th and 18th centuries, in that we have the atomic menace. 
Pierre Schaeffer 

In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show. 
Wilfred Burchett 

Second point is no one here could predict or know that Israel was involved or started producing the hydrogen bomb - the most advanced and powerful atomic bomb that can kill millions of people. 
Mordechai Vanunu 

My job was to produce plutonium that was used for atomic bomb. 
Mordechai Vanunu 

Man cannot influence in this respect the atomic forces of Nature. 
Frederick Soddy 

But Iran has gone far beyond what is necessary for a purely civilian programme. It has concealed several nuclear facilities from the International Atomic Energy Agency, played hide-and-seek with the international community, and rejected all offers of co-operation from the U.S., the EU, and others. 
Anders Fogh Rasmussen

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts. 
Omar N. Bradley 

Show your bluebell passion with every step you take. Infuse your corporeal mind, body and spirit with atomic sense of urgency, purpose and apple juice. 
Isabel Yosito 

The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena. 
Erwin Schrodinger 

Direction coupling between the various radiations generated in a nuclear reaction both with one another and with the initiating radiation can also be detected and measured by coincidences; this provides valuable information about the structure of the atomic nuclei. 
Walther Bothe 

The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we? 
Bennett Cerf 

Instead of an attic with a few test tubes, bits of wire and odds and ends, the attack on the atomic nucleus has required the development and construction of great instruments on an engineering scale. 
Ernest Lawrence 

Japan is the only country in the world to have suffered the ravages of atomic bombing. That experience left an indelible mark on the hearts of our people, making them passionately determined to renounce all wars. 
Eisaku Sato 

Penn State in 1955 became the first university to be issued a federal license to operate a nuclear reactor, which it continues to use for studies in the peaceful uses of atomic energy and the training of nuclear industry personnel. 
Don Sherwood 

From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might well appear to the layman that the main problems were already solved and that only more detailed work was necessary. 
Victor Francis Hess 

Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to manufacture uh, atomic bombs. 
Tom Udall 

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

These studies resulted eventually in a complete sequence analysis of the complex from several species, and in the atomic resolution structure of the F catalytic domain of the enzyme from bovine mitochondria, giving new insights into how ATP is made in the biological world. 
John E. Walker 

The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter which had escaped recognition by other methods. 
Cecil Frank Powell

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