“"It worked." (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation according to brother, Frank)”
J. Robert Oppenheimer
“The development of the first atomic bomb is the great tragic epic of the 20th century, an operatic story. The emotional power of music can extract the richness of this almost mythological narrative, the Wagnerian mystery.”
Richard Rhodes
“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”
Muriel Rukeyser
“Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion”
Democritus
“A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.”
George Wald
“Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena themselves, supported by many other arguments, that the universe was certainly not created for us by divine power: it is so full of imperfectio”
Lucretius
“The universe is made up of stories, not of atoms”
