Atomic Quotes

“Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

“How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn't someone want to talk about it! We've started and won two atomic wars since 2022! Is it because we're having so much fun at home we've forgotten the world? Is it because we're so rich and the rest of the world's so poor and we just don't care if they are? I've heard rumors; the world is starving, but we're well fed. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much? I've heard the rumors about hate too, once in a long while, over the years. Do you know why? I don't, that's sure! Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes!”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“The void is 'not-being,' and no part of 'what is' is a 'not-being,'; for what 'is' in the strict sense of the term is an absolute plenum. This plenum, however, is not 'one': on the contrary, it is a 'many' infinite in number and invisible owing to the minuteness of their bulk.”
― Aristotle

“Bohr's standpoint, that a space-time description is impossible, I reject a limine. Physics does not consist only of atomic research, science does not consist only of physics, and life does not consist only of science. The aim of atomic research is to fit our empirical knowledge concerning it into our other thinking. All of this other thinking, so far as it concerns the outer world, is active in space and time. If it cannot be fitted into space and time, then it fails in its whole aim and one does not know what purpose it really serves.”
― Erwin Schrödinger

“Hiroshima and Nagasaki were atomized at a time when the Japanese were suing desperately for peace. ”
― David Dellinger, Revolutionary Nonviolence: Essays

“Keep radiation weird!”
― Steven Magee

“Black skin absorbs more radiation than white skin.”
― Steven Magee

“Radiation is essential for life.”
― Steven Magee

“Ingested radiation is the gift that keeps on giving!”
― Steven Magee

“I have met some of the people that run USA nuclear power plants and I found them to be shady!”
― Steven Magee

“We are an irradiated nation.”
― Steven Magee

“I knew I had not worked at nuclear facilities, although I do have memories of visiting a nuclear research facility in the UK. Could I have been exposed to nuclear radiation? Perhaps. I was living in the southwest USA. The USA waged a nuclear war with nature in the southwest from July 16, 1945 onward.”
― Steven Magee

“There are no doubts that radioactive fallout has coated the entire world and the southwest USA has a high density of that radioactive coating. Whether you like it or not, some of that radioactivity is inside of your body! Every single human on the surface of the Earth has some level of man made radiation inside of them!”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“The Sun is the largest nuclear reactor in our solar system! The closer you get to it, the greater your radiation exposure is! How do you get closer to the Sun? You move to the tropics and you go as high as you can! The higher you go, the more intense the radiation is.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“It was clear I had radiation sickness. But it was not acute radiation syndrome or chronic radiation syndrome. It was low level radiation sickness (LLRS). It was more like the sickness cancer patients that have radiation treatment get.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“Too much or too little radiation has the potential to kill you!”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“Why does Miso soup work to protect atomic bomb radiation survivors? The Miso soup appears to be counteracting the radiation induced changes in the gastrointestinal tract. The Hibakusha have adapted their diet to match the radiation induced damage in the gastrointestinal tract. They are the among the smartest people around!”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“It is an honor to be associated with Karen Silkwood.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“Radiation has many beneficial effects, but too little or too much can make you sick.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“It seems the war in Ukraine may be in the process of making the next nuclear power plant disaster.”
― Steven Magee

“Most people that have radiation sickness end up having a life that is much sicker than the general population.”
― Steven Magee

“For most people with radiation sickness, it is a life of significantly degraded health.”
― Steven Magee

“Atomic bomb testing was a war crime that was never prosecuted.”
― Steven Magee

“Nevada is the home of USA atomic bomb testing.”
― Steven Magee

“There are many stories of atomic bomb veterans never being compensated for developing radiation diseases.”
― Steven Magee

“We may see a nuclear war before we die.”
― Steven Magee

“It is only a matter of time before another nuclear bomb is detonated during war.”
― Steven Magee

“Wiping a warring city off the map will be a statement to the world, as it was in 1945.”
― Steven Magee

“Proxy wars have us on the edge of the next nuclear disaster!”
― Steven Magee

“Energy never goes away, it just changes.”
― Steven Magee