Manhattan Project Quotes

• 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

  Years, Manhattan, Research

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• I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Death, Military, Hiroshima And Nagasaki

  Onthe detonationof the first atomicbomb,16 Jul1945.Quoted in Len Giovanitti and Fred FreedThe Decision to Drop the Bomb (1965).

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• With control of the universe at stake, a crash program is imperative.We produced the A-bomb, under the huge Manhattan Project, in an amazingly short time. The needs, the urgency today are even greater. The Air Force should end UFO secrecy, give the facts to scientists,the public, to Congress. Once the people realize the truth, they would back, even demand a crash program...for this is one race we dare not lose.

  Donald Keyhoe

  Race, Air, People

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

  Martin Rees

  Commitment, Moon, Challenges

  Martin Rees (2011). “From Here to Infinity: Scientific Horizons”, p.60, Profile Books

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• 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

  Bombs, Manhattan, Scientist

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• 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

  Manhattan, Tvs, Blame

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• 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

  Rome, Manhattan, Earth

  Alastair Reynolds (2004). “Redemption Ark”, p.42, Penguin

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• I had a student some years ago whose father had worked on the Manhattan Project. I had a student who had to escape this very intense, born-again fundamentalist Christian background that was very much like a cult and of course they struggle to get to Naropa. And they have cut themselves off. They don't look back.

  Anne Waldman

  Christian, Father, Struggle

  Source: logosjournal.com

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