Albert Einstein
Physicist
"There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will."
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Stephen Hawking
Theoretical Physicist
"I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming."
L. Ron Hubbard
Author
"It was my responsibility that this world got itself an atom bomb, because there were only a handful of nuclear physicists in the thirties - only a handful. And we were all beating the desk and saying "How wonderful it will be if we discover atomic fission.""
Herbert Schiller
Communication Theorist
"How well a posse policy will fare in a world with 3 billion people below the poverty line and nuclear warheads scattered around a dozen or more regions like melons in a field, is not easy to imagine."
John F. Kennedy
Politician
"We must abolish nuclear weapons, or they will abolish us."
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"Since the advent of nuclear weapons, it seems clear that there is no longer any alternative to peace, if there is to be a happy and well world."
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"It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man."
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"I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it's an old system that we can't control."
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"Other paths would include making nuclear fission cheap enough and safe enough that people broadly embrace it, so that could be scaled up."
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"Nuclear power is one hell of a way to boil water"
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"No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian nuclear power plant."
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"I told my therapist I was having nightmares about nuclear explosions. He said don't worry it's not the end of the world."
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"Cultivating inner discipline is something that takes time; expecting rapid results is simply a sign of impatience."
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"Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism. And for them to be able to provide nuclear technology to non-state actors, that's unacceptable."
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"The discovery of nuclear reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than the discovery of matches."
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"The sheer folly of trying to defend a nation by destroying all life on the planet must be apparent to anyone capable of rational thought. Nuclear capability must be reduced to zero, globally, permanently. There is no other option."
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"Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles."
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"The entire world will be in nuclear war, and only the Swiss will be going, 'what's that noise?'"
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"We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization."
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"There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will."
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"The solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind."
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"A bully has no respect for a weakling and the way to stop a bully is not to be weak. The way to stop a bully from ever being a bully is to say: "I'm as strong as you. Anything you do to me, I can do to you." We are going for nuclear and conventional disarmament but we're going about it in the right way."
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"The ultimate source of happiness is not money and power, but warm-heartedness"
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"Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes."
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"Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy."
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