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Atomic power will make electricity too cheap to meter -- Glenn Seaborg
The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we? -- Bennett Cerf
After leaving ImageMovers, I sold two pitches to Fox Atomic, which I then wrote for them. -- Lauren Miller
I formed a band called Atomic Rooster. The Atomic Rooster was sort of an underground cult band, sort of psychedelic. We did very well. -- Carl Palmer
'It worked.' (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation). -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties. -- Dmitri Mendeleev
Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity. -- Albert Einstein
The Urban Literate Southern California Sub-Group of the Early Atomic Period has not yet produced a distinct body of folk music of its own. -- Sam Hinton
The tragic nuclear accident at Fukushima underscored the urgent need to enhance nuclear safety and the international emergency response framework. I commend the International Atomic Energy Agency for its work. -- Ban Ki-moon
The International Atomic Energy Agency is controlling this, the sanctions against Iran are lifted - but still the US are working on their missile defense system. What is the point of this? -- Vladimir Putin
The dropping of the Atomic Bomb is a very deep problem... Instead of commemorating Hiroshima we should celebrate... man's triumph over the problem [of transmutation], and not its first misuse by politicians and military authorities. -- Frederick Soddy
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
I am told by those who know that there are six varieties of hangover-the Broken Compass, the Sewing Machine, the Comet, the Atomic, the Cement Mixer and the Gremlin Boogie, and his manner suggested that he had got them all. -- P. G. Wodehouse
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
General Atomics, the progenitor of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, started life in 1955 when a major military contractor, General Dynamics, feared that the military hardware market might dry up. It began exploring peacetime uses of atomic energy, but abandoned the effort when cold-war military spending took off. -- Charles Duhigg
It is critically important that Iran should not develop nuclear weapons. And that the necessary interventions need to be made by the International Atomic Energy Agency to ensure that, indeed, that does not happen, in the context of any nuclear generation of power or research or whatever, in Iran. -- Thabo Mbeki
The Western day is indeed nearing when the inner science of self-control will be found as necessary as the outer conquest of nature. This new Atomic Age will see men's minds sobered and broadened by the now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a concentrate of energy. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
I like the name Atomic Kitten. It's so great. -- Bryan Ferry
Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime. -- George Wald
The elements which are the most widely diffused have small atomic weights. -- Dmitri Mendeleev
Private enterprise did not get us atomic energy. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
How wonderful it will be if we discover atomic fission. -- L. Ron Hubbard
Scientists are like atomic nuclei. They are more easily split than fused.... -- Charles Osgood
The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one. -- George Wald
Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb. -- Laura Hillenbrand
One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb. -- Marcel Pagnol
The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter. -- C. V. Raman
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
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
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. -- George Wald
How do we prevent Iran developing an atomic bomb, when, on the American side, dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is not recognised as a war crime? -- Gunter Grass
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
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
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
Hibakusha' is an animated docu-drama that Choz Belen and I are directing, and it will take you through the earliest memories of a Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor named Kaz Suyeishi. -- Steve Nguyen
Ernest Rutherford's 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry wasn't given for the nuclear power station - he wouldn't have survived that long - it was given for showing how interesting atomic physics could be. -- Andre Geim
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
In the first weeks after Hiroshima, extravagant statements by President Truman and other official spokesmen for the U.S. government transformed the inception of the atomic age into the most mythologized event in American history. -- Stewart Udall
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. -- Tom Waits
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
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
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
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
Weapons of mass destruction are the greatest threat to life on earth. Biological weapons are often called the poor man's atomic bomb. Saddam Hussein is the ruler who has for decades been making the most determined and diabolical illegal effort to acquire them. -- William Shawcross
It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so long as fractional weights were general there was no particular need to explain this fact, nor could any definite conclusions be drawn from it. -- Francis William Aston
To understand how black projects began, and how they continue to function today, one must start with the creation of the atomic bomb. The men who ran the Manhattan Project wrote the rules about black operations. The atomic bomb was the mother of all black projects, and it is the parent from which all black operations have sprung. -- Annie Jacobsen
The atomic bomb provoked a specific accident. -- Paul Virilio
But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography. -- Michael Polanyi
It worked.' (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation). -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
And then the Necromancers pulled out their sub-atomic machine guns. -- Derek Landy
We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids ? -- Isidor Isaac Rabi
The victory of Socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims! -- Che Guevara
Scientology is the only specific (cure) for radiation (atomic bomb) burns. -- L. Ron Hubbard
Man cannot influence in this respect the atomic forces of Nature. -- Frederick Soddy
Certain characteristic properties of elements can be foretold from their atomic weights. -- Dmitri Mendeleev
The mere existence of atomic weapons implies the possibility of their use. -- Georgy Zhukov
My dream is to drop three atomic bombs on New York City. -- Raul Castro
Deep in the world of atomic nuclei, life is not always tranquil. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
My job was to produce plutonium that was used for atomic bomb. -- Mordechai Vanunu
The atomic bomb is too dangerous to be loose in a lawless world. -- Harry S. Truman
I grow tired of 18th century moralities in a 20th century space-atomic age -- Charles Bukowski
Measure your emotions. You don't need an atomic explosion for a minor point. -- Jim Rohn
How could you possibly stop the apocalypse when I'm atomic bombin' the populace? -- Crooked i
Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap. -- Albert Einstein
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts. -- Omar N. Bradley
We are like an atomic structure. We've got a causal body that's linked together. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I think the Internet is the most dangerous thing invented since the atomic bomb, -- John Mellencamp
The earlier, the more fun. Why put it off? Itâ??s the atomic age! -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics. -- John Maynard Keynes
History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight. -- Neil Armstrong
I get atomic, hypo-galactical... Word to mom, I'm in my own world. Galaxy rays? Powerful. -- Kool Keith
With laissez-faire and price atomic, Ecology's Uneconomic, But with another kind of logic Economy's Unecologic. -- Kenneth E. Boulding
The world starts with a Big Bang and finishes with a human-made atomic Big Bang! -- Javad Alizadeh
I think that American salesmanship can be a weapon more powerful than the atomic bomb. -- Henry J. Kaiser
Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs, I saidWe have a protractor. -- Neal Stephenson
Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor. -- Neal Stephenson
Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult. -- Naoto Kan
Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers. -- Oliver Sacks
No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy]. -- Edward Victor Appleton
Our focus should be on developmental dimensions of atomic science with a special outreach to India's youth. -- Narendra Modi
I had become an atheist at the age of thirteen, when atomic bombs were dropped on Japan. -- Paul Krassner
The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul. -- Herbert Hoover
I have thought about dropping an atomic bomb on Sydney but I wouldn't gain anything from it. -- Damir Dokic
The atomic bomb is a marvelous gift that was given to our country by a wise God. -- Phyllis Schlafly
Life is a partial, continuous, progressive, multiform and conditionally interactive self-realization of the potentialities of atomic electron states. -- John Desmond Bernal
World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism. -- Stephen Ambrose
One effect could be that the huge atomic arsenal created in the cold war could be reduced significantly. -- Gerhard Schroder
There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser. -- Eric Allin Cornell
People who talk of outlawing the atomic bomb are mistaken - what needs to be outlawed is war. -- Leslie Groves
The strategy of Tumblr is very elegant.. The atomic unit of user experience is the same as the ads. -- Fred Wilson
In the shadow of the atomic bomb it has become even more apparent that all men are, indeed, brothers. -- Albert Einstein
As someone remarked, when told the new atomic bombs would explode without a bang, "they can't leave anything alone. -- Quentin Crisp
Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking. -- Bill Vaughan
The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom. -- Willard Libby
Armageddon. The slaughter of humanity. An atomic war no one wanted, but which no one had the wisdom to avoid. -- Edward Bernds
[The human control of atomic energy could] virtually provide anyone who wanted it with a private sun of his own. -- Frederick Soddy
I've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic. -- Romola Garai
There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books. -- John Hersey
The (atomic) soul is mortal, and the best life is the one with the least pain and the most pleasure. -- Catherine Wilson
So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century. -- Philip Shabecoff
One has to watch out for engineers. They begin with the sewing machine and end up with the atomic bomb. -- Marcel Pagnol
The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading. -- Barry Commoner
The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind. -- Bertrand Russell
Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger. -- Albert Einstein
To talk of atomic energy in terms of atomic bombs is like talking of electricity in terms of the electric chair. -- Pyotr Kapitsa
Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb. -- Janet Fitch
We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
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. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
I feel worried, deeply worried, only about one thing - the possibility that we fall... that we cannot avoid an atomic war. -- Erich Fromm
My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City. -- Philip Morrison
The Japanese position was hopeless even before the first atomic bomb fell because the Japanese had lost control of their own air. -- Henry H. Arnold
Pressure hulls collapse at the speed of sound. Once that starts, you're inside your own little imploding atomic bomb, and you're gone. -- Graham Hawkes
We walk the brink of racial suicide because we were smart enough to make atomic bombs and stupid enough to use them. -- David Zindell
If our inconceivably ancient universe even had any beginning, the conditions determining that beginning must even now be engraved in the atomic weights. -- Theodore William Richards
All the quantum physics experiments have occurred chiefly on the atomic scale and we are taught to believe that nature's laws are consistent. -- Mitch Horowitz
I did not want to be labelled the designer who survived the atomic bomb, and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima. -- Issey Miyake
It would be madness to let the purposes or the methods of private enterprise set the habits of the age of atomic energy. -- Harold Laski
They say atomic rad-i-ation can hurt your reproductive organs. My answer is, so can a hockey stick. But we don't stop building them. -- Johnny Carson
The content or message of any particular medium has about as much importance as the stenciling on the casing of an atomic bomb. -- Marshall McLuhan

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