atomic quotes

The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon us the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb.We do not choose our problems, we do not choose our products; we are pushed, we are forcedby what? Bya system which has no purpose and goal transcending it, and which makes man its appendix.

- Erich Fromm
  The Sane Society.

There are people not spoken about, people not written about, people whose name is a way of saying they are not there. Hibakusha, atomic victimsthe scarred who carry our scars.

- Maggie Gee
  Of the victims of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Burning Book, ch.1.

A form of atomic blackmail.

-John F(itzgerald) Kennedy
  On the Soviet decision to resume nuclear testing, 31  Aug.

We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.

- Martin LutherJr King
  Strength to Love, ch.13.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you goahead and doitand youargueabout whatto doabout it onlyafter you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

-J(ulius) Robert Oppenheimer
  'In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer', USAEC transcript of hearing before Personnel Security Board.

One has to look out for engineersthey begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.

- Marcel Pagnol
  Critique des critiques, ch.3.

The biggest thing since the atom bomb.

- Diana originally Diana Dalziel Vreeland
  On the bikini. In her obituary in the NewYorkTimes,1 Apr.