Quotes & Sayings About The Atomic Bomb By Einstein

I suspect if we were as familiar with our bones as with our skin, we'd never bury dead but shrine them in their rooms, arranged as we might like to find them on a visit; and our enemies, if we could steal their bodies from the battle sites, would be museumed as they died, the steel still eloquent in their sides, their metal hats askew, the protective toes of their shoes unworn, and friend and enemy would be so wondrously historical that in a hundred years we'd find the jaws still hung for the same speech and all the parts we spent our life with titled as they always were - rib cage, collar, skull - still repetitious, still defiant, angel light, still worthy of memorial and affection. After all, what does it mean to say that when our cat has bitten through the shell and put confusion in the pulp, the life goes out of them? Alas for us, I want to cry, our bones are secret, showing last, so we must love what perishes: the muscles and the waters and the fats. — William H Gass

Often in evolutionary processes a species must adapt to new conditions in order to survive. Today the atomic bomb has altered profoundly the nature of the world as we know it, and the human race consequently finds itself in a new habitat to which it must adapt its thinking. — Albert Einstein

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time. — Marian Wright Edelman

A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right. — Robert Louis Stevenson

It's hard to get a great idea sometimes. When you get a good one and you have a good script, you want to keep shepherding it to make it happen. — Chris Henchy

Life is complicated sometimes to be sure, but there are other times ... when life is just as sweet, and good, and simple as it seems. — Sarah Weeks

The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song together, and it wasn't that bad! The writing came natural to me. — Tom Petty

About eighty percent of the food on shelves of supermarkets today didn't exist 100 years ago. — Larry McCleary

The jokes that take my last name and equate them to a sex act ... is a really cruel thing to do. — Monica Lewinsky

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book. — Samuel Johnson

I am a romantic, I admit it. — Keith Jarrett

Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger. — Albert Einstein

I have to be seen to be believed. — Queen Elizabeth II

I felt my smile crumple. — Suzanne Rindell

Mankind invented the atomic bomb,
but no mouse would ever construct
a mousetrap. — Albert Einstein

Unless Americans come to realize that they are not stronger in the world because they have the bomb but weaker because of their vulnerability to atomic attack, they are not likely to conduct their policy at Lake Success [the United Nations] or in their relations with Russia in a spirit that furthers the arrival at an understanding. — Albert Einstein

In the shadow of the atomic bomb it has become even more apparent that all men are, indeed, brothers. — Albert Einstein

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 will be killed. — Albert Einstein

The first bowl sleekly moistened throat and lips, The second banished all my loneliness The third expelled the dullness from my mind, Sharpening inspiration gained from all the books I've read. The fourth brought forth light perspiration, Dispersing a lifetimes troubles through my pores. The fifth bowl cleansed every atom of my being. The sixth has made me kin to the Immortals. This seventh ... I can take no more. — Lu Tong

I hope to work with kids any way possible. — Jenna Bush