#atom

There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people. ↗

— Harry Browne

#atomic bombs #bombs #drop #influence #innocent

We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#get #interest #money #much #never

Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom? ↗

— Lord Byron

#anxious #atom #came #dead #go

The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we? ↗

— Bennett Cerf

#atomic #here #stay

An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom, and pushes the former to one side, and the latter in the other direction. ↗

— Johannes Stark

#atom #direction #electric #external #field

The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity. ↗

— Steven Chu

#become #higher #intensity #laser #like

It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#atomic #biological #human #inheritance #interests

The supply of matter in the universe was never more tightly packed than it is now, or more widely spread out. For nothing is ever added to it or subtracted from it. It follows that the movement of atoms today is no different from what it was in bygone ages and always will be. So the things that have regularly come into being will continue to come into being in the same manner; they will be and grow and flourish so far as each is allowed by the laws of nature. ↗

— Titus Lucretius Carus

#lucretius #nature #philosophy #universe #age

There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world. ↗

— Paul Dirac

#behavior #between #confronting #economic #great

The savages don't have atom bombs. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#bombs #savages