atom quotes

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.

- Omar Nelson Bradley
  Speech,10 Nov, commemorating  Armistice Day.

Sooneror latereveryone of us breathes anatomthat has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has lived before usMichelangelo or George Washington or Moses.

-Jacob Bronowski
  Quoted in the NewYork Times,13 Oct1969.

It ismoresinfultoconceal thepoweroftheatomthanit is to reveal it.

-W Sterling Cole
  Statement,9 Mar, endorsedby WinstonChurchill in a letter to President Eisenhower. Quoted in Peter G Boyle (ed)  The Churchill^Eisenhower Correspondence1953^55.

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.

- SirArthur Stanley Eddington
  Stars and  Atoms, lecture1.

He understood†Walt Whitman, who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary, and Herman Melville who split the atom of the traditional novel in the effort to make whaling a universal metaphor.

- David John Lodge
  Changing Places, ch.5.

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, and neither the dictators nor the bureaucrats, deeplyas they disapprove of the process, are able to prevent it.

- George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair Orwell
  'Some Thoughts on the Common Toad'.

Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There isno evil in the atomonly in men's souls.

- Adlai E(wing) Stevenson
  Speech, Connecticut,18 Sep.

I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For everyatom belonging to me asgood belongs to you.

-Walt(er) Whitman
  Leaves of Grass,'Song of Myself', section1.