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Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom. -- Jimmy Greaves
You can stop splitting the atom; you can stop visiting the moon; you can stop using aerosols; you may even decide not to kill entire populations by the use of a few bombs. But you cannot recall a new form of life. -- Erwin Chargaff
Splitting the atom is like trying to shoot a gnat in the Albert Hall at night and using ten million rounds of ammunition on the off chance of getting it. That should convince you that the atom will always be a sink of energy and never a reservoir of energy. -- Ernest Rutherford
[Decoding the human genome sequence] is the most significant undertaking that we have mounted so far in an organized way in all of science. I believe that reading our blueprints, cataloguing our own instruction book, will be judged by history as more significant than even splitting the atom or going to the moon. -- Francis Collins
The scientists split the atom; now the atom is splitting us. -- Quentin Reynolds
The splitting of the atom has changed everything except for how we think. -- Albert Einstein

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