Atom Quotes

I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table... I hope we shall abolish all hydrogen and atom bombs before they abolish us first.

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin

“The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.”

Albert Einstein

“Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force.”

Paul Vernon Buser

“The scientists split the atom; now the atom is splitting us.”

Quentin Reynolds

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

E. B. White

“Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.”

Stuart Chase

“To us who think in terms of practical use, the splitting of the atom means nothing”

Lord Richie Calder

“Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine”

Ernest Rutherford

There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.

Adlai Stevenson

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

Albert Einstein

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

Henry Adams

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

Niels Bohr

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

George Wald

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Jack London

The atom bomb was no "great decision." It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness

Harry S. Truman