Atom Quotes

I can`t help feeling the world is on this terrible roller coaster where nobody can get it up since the atom bomb.

(On filming The Sweet Hereafter (1997)) "I was so young then, 18. I`m really comfortable in sadness so I don`t get depressed doing stuff like that. I actually find it invigorating. It was an amazing experience. Atom Egoyan is a filmmaker who I really respect and I felt like I had his trust".

I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table . . . I hope we shall abolish all hydrogen and atom bombs before they abolish us first.

(Quoted by Ted Morgan in the book "FDR", Simon & Schuster, 1985) I made one great mistake in my life - when I signed the letter to (President Franklin Delano Roosevelt) recommending that atom bombs be made . . . but there was some justification - the danger that the Germans would make them.

At one point American peace sentiment helped to stop Truman from pursuing use of the atom bomb in Korea and helped force the recall of MacArthur.

Miloshevich`s main mistake was that he thought the Serbs numbered 250 million and that he didn`t have two Atom bombs in his pocket.

(on working with Julie Taymor) She`s like working with an, I don`t know, atom bomb. One idea will spawn a million other ideas really quickly, but they all follow her logic so you`ve got to keep up with it. But she`s an actor`s director. She comes from the theater. That was the major appealing point for me. She`s very free. She lets you go. She lets you explore, and then she can completely sort of hang onto an idea and force an idea, which, as you can see, sometimes is a really cool thing.

Leave the atom alone.

A physicist is an atom`s way of knowing about atoms.

History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.

I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.

It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.

But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.

The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis of political and military perceptions.

It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.

The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine