#atom

One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#actually #atomic #choice #devices #distort

But so far, you know who's been violating the nuclear nonproliferation pact day and night? Those who signed it. Iran, Iraq, Libya and Iran violates it while calling for Israel's destruction and racing to develop atomic weapons to that end. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#been #calling #day #destruction #develop

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb. ↗

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

#after #ahead #argue #atomic #atomic bomb

Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#atomic #atomic bombs #avoided #bombs #hope

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun. ↗

— George Orwell

#bombs #cities #earth #factories #going

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#comprehend #encompasses #i #like #me

The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter which had escaped recognition by other methods. ↗

— Cecil Frank Powell

#detecting #enabled #escaped #establish #existence

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

— Orson Pratt

#each #form #holy #holy spirit #intelligent

In 1958, I was a delegate to the Atoms for Peace conference in Geneva. ↗

— Frederick Reines

#conference #delegate #geneva #i #peace

At Harvard I was in charge of the comparative anatomy labs. ↗

— Robert T. Bakker

#charge #comparative #harvard #i #labs