Atomic Quotes

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

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth might be killed. But enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.

Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I never would have lifted a finger.