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• The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing.
  Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine....
• Lord Rutherford was reported to have said that whoever talks about the liberation of atomic energy on an industrial scale is talking moonshine.
  Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me....
• A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms. -- George Wald
• The scientists split the atom; now the atom is splitting us.
  -- Quentin Reynolds, in "Quote & Unquote", 1970...
• Two sodium atoms are walking along the street when one stops and says, "Oh my God, I think I've lost an electron!
  "Are you sure?" asks the other sodium atom. "Yes," replies the first sodium atom, "I'm positive....
• Power, after love, is the first source of happiness. -- Stendhal
• And when at last it is time for the transition from megacorporation to planetary governme
  from entrepreneur to emperor, it is then that the true genius of our strategy shall become apparent, for energy is the lifeblood of this society and when the chips are down he who controls the energy supply controls Planet....