Atomic Quotes

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Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.

The atomic bomb is a marvelous gift that was given to our country by a wise God.

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.

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

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

The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.

The mere existence of atomic weapons implies the possibility of their use.

Scientology is the only specific (cure) for radiation (atomic bomb) burns.

The key to the utilization of atomic energy for world peace will be found in the will of all people to restrict its use for the betterment of mankind.

The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace. The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military point of view, in the defeat of Japan.

We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.

We do not need an atomic bomb. The Iranian nation is wise. It won't build two atomic bombs while you have 20,000 warheads.

People who talk of outlawing the atomic bomb are mistaken - what needs to be outlawed is war.

The Japanese position was hopeless even before the first atomic bomb fell because the Japanese had lost control of their own air.

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds. Have no fear for atomic energy, 'Cause none of them can stop the time.

I did not want to be labelled the designer who survived the atomic bomb, and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.

When you see something that is technically sweet you go ahead and do it.

So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages.

History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.

When you have to deal with a beast, you have to treat him as a beast. It is most regrettable but nevertheless true.

The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the U.S. at Bikini Island in the Marshall Isles, hence the naming of the bikini.

My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City.

One day he (Einstein) said that the only mechanical force more powerful than steam, electricity and atomic energy is will. That Albert guy was not stupid. With will you can achieve things.

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.

We had been frightened of atomic weapons since 1945. In those days I became convinced - and remain convinced now - that, after Hitler, Truman was the greatest murderer in the world.

To talk of atomic energy in terms of atomic bombs is like talking of electricity in terms of the electric chair.

I always go back to Harry Truman: Should we drop an atomic bomb to save 100,000 lives? That's a hell of a decision to make. Did he make that decision by himself? No, he had advisers.

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.

It would be madness to let the purposes or the methods of private enterprise set the habits of the age of atomic energy.

There has been great excitement at the prospect that this atomic bomb or atomic energy is likely to produce great industrial energy very quickly, I do not believe it at all.

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

It is the large brain capacity which allows man to live as a human being, enjoy taxes, canned salmon, television, and the atomic bomb.

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

Private enterprise did not get us atomic energy.

The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one. It can give us no protection - only the doubtful satisfaction of retaliation...

Mike's (Tyson) punch is like an atomic bomb in that it is relative to nature. Both have no value unless you have a means of conveying it to the target. He is boxing-smart.

I believe that there have been civilisations in the past that were familiar with atomic energy, and that by misusing it they were totally destroyed.

I think the Internet is the most dangerous thing invented since the atomic bomb.

The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.

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.

Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.

The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws governing a small number of primordial objects.

One has to watch out for engineers. They begin with the sewing machine and end up with the atomic bomb.

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.

We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids ?

Against the dark background of the atomic bomb, the United States does not wish merely to present strength, but also the desire and the hope for peace.

I have thought about dropping an atomic bomb on Sydney but I wouldn't gain anything from it.

The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind.

Pressure hulls collapse at the speed of sound. Once that starts, you're inside your own little imploding atomic bomb, and you're gone.

The content or message of any particular medium has about as much importance as the stenciling on the casing of an atomic bomb.