#atomic

Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#einstein #energy #matter #physics #science

The void is 'not-being,' and no part of 'what is' is a 'not-being,'; for what 'is' in the strict sense of the term is an absolute plenum. This plenum, however, is not 'one': on the contrary, it is a 'many' infinite in number and invisible owing to the minuteness of their bulk. ↗

— Aristotle

#atom #atomic #atomic-science #atoms #democritus

Prolific irony - For 8 years, the finger on the button that could end the world belonged to a president who couldn't pronounce the word "nuclear. ↗

— T. Rafael Cimino

#americans #atomic-bomb #george-bush #nuclear #nuclear-weapons

A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#atomic #common #community #dark #darkens

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. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#atomic bomb #believe #bomb #civilization #earth

Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#atomic #burned #centre #except #explosion

In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#atomic bomb #bomb #damage #desolation #eden

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. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#atomic #atomic bombs #been #bombs #dark

I like the name Atomic Kitten. It's so great. ↗

— Bryan Ferry

#great #i #kitten #like #name

There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

#days #experiments #few #involve #laser