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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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"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 do not like this word bomb. It is not a bomb it is a device which is exploding." »Jacques LeBlanc
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"I do not like this word "bomb." It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding." »Jacques le Blanc, French ambassador on nuclear weapons
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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, Stars and Atoms (1928), Lecture 1
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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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"The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb." »Benny Hill
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"The President can bomb anybody he likes." »Richard Nixon, Nixon
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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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"Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb." »Spiro T. Agnew
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"To become oneself, with all one's strength. Difficult. A bomb, a speech, a rifle shot -- and the world can look a different place. And then where is this self" »Christa Wolf
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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 White House is the leakiest place I've ever been in. (On special measures to ensure secrecy of plans to bomb Libya)" »Ronald Reagan
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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 prelude to Tristan and Isolde sounded as if a bomb had fallen into a large music factory and had thrown all the notes into confusion." »The Tribune, Berlin, 1871
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"I'd rather use the nuclear bomb...Does that bother you I just want you to think big, Henry, for Christ's sake. to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on escalating the Vietnam War" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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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 do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored." »Albert Einstein
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"Expecting a carjacker or rapist or drug pusher to care that his possession or use of a gun is unlawful is like expecting a terrorist to care that his car bomb is taking up two parking spaces." »Joseph T. Chew
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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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"In a way the CID man was pretty lucky, because outside the hospital the war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives." »Joesph Heller, Catch-22
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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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