The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one. It can give us no protection-only the doubtful satisfaction of retaliation.
Certain characteristic properties of elements can be foretold from their atomic weights.
One has to watch out for engineers. They begin with the sewing machine and end up with the atomic bomb.
Scientology is the only specific (cure) for radiation (atomic bomb) burns.
The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.
Every artist's strictly illimitable country is himself. An artist who plays that country false has committed suicide;and even a good lawyer cannot kill the dead. But a human being who's true to himself whoever himself may be is immortal;and all the atomic bombs of all the antiartists in spacetime will never civilize immortality.
Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.
I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.
Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.
[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be true; indeed it is probable, since the sensational triumphs of Einstein, that stellar astronomy and atomic physics are the only sciences which stand higher in popular estimation.
In the increasingly mechanized, automated, cybernated environment of the modern world a cold, bodiless world of wheels, smooth plastic surfaces, tubes, pushbuttons, transistors, computers, jet propulsion, rockets to the moon, atomic energy man's need for affirmation of his biology has become that much more intense.
The atomic bomb is a marvelous gift that was given to our country by a wise God.
Measure your emotions. You don't need an atomic explosion for a minor point.
The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?
How could you possibly stop the apocalypse when I'm atomic bombin' the populace?
[The human control of atomic energy could] virtually provide anyone who wanted it with a private sun of his own.
My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City.
I had become an atheist at the age of thirteen, when atomic bombs were dropped on Japan.
From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might well appear to the layman that the main problems were already solved and that only more detailed work was necessary.
When I think of New York I have a very different feeling. New York makes even a rich man feel his unimportance. New York is cold, glittering, malign. The buildings dominate. There is a sort of atomic frenzy to the activity going on; the more furious the pace, the more diminished the spirit. A constant ferment, but it might just as well be going on in a test tube. Nobody knows what it's all about. Nobody directs the energy. Stupendous. Bizarre, Baffling. A tremendous reactive urge, but absolutely uncoordinated.