Atom Quotes

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.

“One atom of the plane where He functions would shatter the world.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“There is not the slightest indication that energy will ever be obtainable from the atom”

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

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

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

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

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

Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size, and occupies space.
Orson Pratt

Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom.
Jimmy Greaves

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

Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.
James Jeans

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

The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.
Ralph Merkle

“Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.”
Pearl Strachan Hurd

“I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you”

“History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.”
Leonard L. Levinson







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