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«Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine»
«It is, indeed, a remarkable circumstance that when Western civilization discovers Relativity it applies it to the manufacture of atom-bombs, whereas Oriental civilization applies it to the development of new states of consciousness»
«A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.»
Author: George Wald | About: Science | Keywords: atom, atoms, physicist
«History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.»
Author: Leonard L. Levinson | About: History | Keywords: Adam, atom, trudge, trudged
«Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force.»
«Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.»
«It sometimes strikes me that the whole of science is a piece of impudence; that nature can afford to ignore our impertinent interference. If our monkey mischief should ever reach the point of blowing up the earth by decomposing an atom, and even annihilated the sun himself, I cannot really suppose that the universe would turn a hair.»
«I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them.»
«I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you»
Author: Walt Whitman (Poet) | Keywords: assume, atom, belonging, celebrate
«I celebrate myself, and what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass.»