Quotes on Atom Bomb

I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them.

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs.

Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy.

So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages.

The atom bomb was no great decision. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae.