Atomic Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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