Atom Splitting Quotes

#1. The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilliser.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#2. The scientists split the atom; now the atom is splitting us.

Quentin Reynolds

#3. Splitting the atom is like trying to shoot a gnat in the Albert Hall at night and using ten million rounds of ammunition on the off chance of getting it. That should convince you that the atom will always be a sink of energy and never a reservoir of energy.

Ernest Rutherford

#4. Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom.

Jimmy Greaves

#5. Along with the atom, the personality of the Homo Sapiens has been splitting ...

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#6. You can stop splitting the atom; you can stop visiting the moon; you can stop using aerosols; you may even decide not to kill entire populations by the use of a few bombs. But you cannot recall a new form of life.

Erwin Chargaff

#7. The splitting of the atom has changed everything except for how we think.

Albert Einstein