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Instead of an attic with a few test tubes, bits of wire and odds and ends, the attack on the atomic nucleus has required the development and construction of great instruments on an engineering scale.

— Ernest Lawrence

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Marcel Pagnol

If the experimental physicist has already done a great deal of work in this field, nevertheless the theoretical physicist has still hardly begun to evaluate the experimental material which may lead him to conclusions about the structure of the atom.

— Johannes Stark

Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult.

— Naoto Kan

I developed a counterterrorism device that's revolutionizing the way we detect nuclear materials.

— Taylor Wilson

The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom.

— Willard Libby

Many scientists will have to contribute to the solution of the great problem; they will have to follow up and measure all those phenomena in which the atomic structure is directly expressed.

— Johannes Stark

The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.

— George Wald

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

— Albert Einstein

Leave the atom alone.

— E. Y. Harburg

✗Opposing Perspectives

It might seem paradoxical that the biggest scientific instruments of all are needed in order to probe the very smallest things in nature. The micro-world is inherently 'fuzzy' - the sharper the detail we wish to study, the higher the energy that is required and the bigger the accelerator that is needed.

— Martin Rees