Quotes About Manhattan Project

#1. As the old saying went, the Manhattan Project wasn't built in a day. Or was that Rome? Something to do with Earth, anyway.

Alastair Reynolds

#2. All I'm saying is that it's shortsighted to blame TV. It's simply another symptom. TV didn't invent our aesthetic childishness here any more than the Manhattan Project invented aggression.

David Foster Wallace

#3. One day you have Einstein, puzzling over the theory of relativity, the next you've got the Manhattan Project and a big hole in the ground.

Justin Cronin

#4. During my participation in the Manhattan Project and subsequent research at Los Alamos, encompassing a period of fifteen years, I worked in the company of perhaps the greatest collection of scientific talent the world has ever known.

Frederick Reines

#5. I will have nothing to do with a bomb! [Response to being invited (1943) to work with Otto Robert Frisch and some British scientists at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb.]

Lise Meitner

#6. The 'clean energy' challenge deserves a commitment akin to the Manhattan project or the Apollo moon landing.

Martin Rees

#7. I don't think any actor wants their children to follow them into the profession.

Helena Bonham Carter

#8. No one's life weighs more than another.

Sarah Noffke

#9. I don't read a lot of magazines, but when I'm traveling, I'll pick up a copy of 'Vanity Fair' to read on the plane - it's like a full meal! The articles are so good, especially the crime stories. Browsing the Web is more like snacking - but I live on snacks.

Sam Trammell

#10. Haste represented youth's infirmity.

S.W. Frank

#11. I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think and feel. The conversation becomes a real conversation.

Carol Gilligan

#12. I'm 18! It feels great to be legal!

Courtney Stodden

#13. So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I should be most interested in - and if I could hack, as we called it, a senior class, I would continue. I didn't hack the senior class.

James Earl Jones

#14. They examined all my organs. Some of them are quite remarkable and others are not so good. A lot of museums are bidding for them.

Casey Stengel

#15. Anglo-Saxon tends not to lend itself to long and elaborate words that have strung together three or four affixes to create a rhetorical term for a very obscure thing. While

Ammon Shea

#16. We're three women from two different centuries, trying to save the world from oblivion. I don't know about you, but that's way above my pay grade.

G.G. Collins

#17. I'm whispering so that the media doesn't hear me.

Rush Limbaugh

#18. If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#19. Not only does evil depend upon good, but in this case, darkness depends upon light.

Jonathan L. Walls

#20. I disagree with the followers of Marx and those of Adam Smith: the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error, not by giving rewards or "incentives" for skill.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb