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"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 Rutheford
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"I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the ATOM and important knowledge of the ATOM has been reached through the stars." »Sir Arthur Eddington
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"I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the ATOM has been reached through the stars." »Sir Arthur Eddington, Stars and Atoms (1928), Lecture 1
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"The best defense against the ATOM bomb is not to be there when it goes off." »Anonymous
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"A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms." »George Wald
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"History is the short trudge from Adam to ATOM." »Leonard Louis Levinson
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"Split the atom's heart, and low Within it thou wilt find a sun." »Persian Mystic Poem
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"The unleashed power of the ATOM has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe." »Albert Einstein
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"The ATOM, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions." »Unknown
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"The Internet is like a vault with a screen door on the back. I don't need jackhammers and ATOM bomb to get in when I can walk through the door." »Anonymous
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"I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every ATOM belonging to me as good belongs to you." »Walt Whitman
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"I would rather be ashes than dust I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every ATOM of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time." »Jack London
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"Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the ATOM only in men's souls." »Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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"I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by a dryrot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every ATOM of me in a magnificient glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time." »Jack London, Personal Credo
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"It is characteristic of the military mentality that nonhuman factors (atom bombs, strategic bases, weapons of all sorts, the possession of raw materials, etc) are held essential, while the human being, his desires, and thoughts - in short, the psychological factors - are considered as unimportant and secondary...The individual is degraded...to "human materiel"." »Albert Einstein
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