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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?
I like the name Atomic Kitten. It's so great.
But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography.
My job was to produce plutonium that was used for atomic bomb.
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
Man cannot influence in this respect the atomic forces of Nature.
Alice Munro is an atomic writer blasting doors into narrative time.
Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.
The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.
The elements which are the most widely diffused have small atomic weights.
Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.
No one has looked at news from new atomic units of content, like a tweet on Twitter.
The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
I didn't want to spend my life contributing to the development of more atomic weaponry.
Certain characteristic properties of elements can be foretold from their atomic weights.
After leaving ImageMovers, I sold two pitches to Fox Atomic, which I then wrote for them.
Nation should be rest assured Pakistan is a safe atomic power. No one can cast an evil eye on it.
I've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic.
World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.
The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.
One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.
The works I made at the start of my career rely on the themes of war, atomic power, and outer space.
Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.
One effect could be that the huge atomic arsenal created in the cold war could be reduced significantly.
There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser.
My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City.
Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult.
The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties.
The structure of many cellular macromolecules has been revealed at the atomic level using x-ray crystallography.
If we made atomic bombs, we would bring about a terrible change in the world. Who knows what would happen from this?
Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb.
The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.
The emergence of the Atomic Age brought the previously inchoate and 'free-floating' anxiety of many people into sharp focus.
The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Pressure hulls collapse at the speed of sound. Once that starts, you're inside your own little imploding atomic bomb, and you're gone.
I did not want to be labelled 'the designer who survived the atomic bomb,' and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.
Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
The big problem for atomic energy is that it can't compete on price with the new age of cheap shale gas and, to a lesser extent, clean coal.
Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.
There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.
I remember when John Cameron Swayze over the television told me personally that the Russians now had the atomic bomb; then I knew that we were goners.
Thus at the beginning of 1906 it seemed to be established that the emitters of the spectral series of chemical elements are their positive atomic ions.
Show your bluebell passion with every step you take. Infuse your corporeal mind, body and spirit with atomic sense of urgency, purpose and apple juice.
If our inconceivably ancient universe even had any beginning, the conditions determining that beginning must even now be engraved in the atomic weights.
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 will be killed.
I used to be the third person in the secret jets we had - they were secret at the time - a jet bomber that flew at immense heights carrying atomic bombs.
In the spring of 1948, I was able to join the newly created Brookhaven National Laboratory, which was dedicated to finding peaceful uses for atomic energy.
