Hydrogen Quotes - Page 7

• Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed, the human race will have at its command powers beyond the dream of scientific fiction.

  Francis William Aston

  Dream, Stars, Mean

  Nobel Lecture, 1922.

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• I know that I could make this world peaceful and calm, if I only could get my hands on a hydrogen bomb.

  Todd Rundgren

  Hydrogen Bomb, Hands, Peaceful

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• Financial hydrogen bombs built on personal computers by 26-year-olds with MBAs.

  Felix Rohatyn

  Business, Years, Mba

  "They had parties, we got the hangover" by Ruth Sunderland, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2009.

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• There is a further advantage [to hydrogen bombs]: the supply of uranium in the planet is very limited, and it might be feared that it would be used up before the human race was exterminated, but now that the practically unlimited supply of hydrogen can be utilized, there is considerable reason to hope that homo sapiens may put an end to himself, to the great advantage of such less ferocious animals as may survive. But it is time to return to less cheerful topics.

  Bertrand Russell

  Animal, Race, Hydrogen Bomb

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• There is no water in oxygen, no water in hydrogen: it comes bubbling fresh from the imagination of the living God, rushing from under the great white throne of the glacier. The very thought of it makes one gasp with an elemental joy no metaphysician can analyse.

  George MacDonald

  Oxygen, Rushing, White

  George Macdonald (2012). “Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III”, p.250, Simon and Schuster

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• There is not going to be a "hydrogen economy," and no combination of alternative energy systems or fuels will allow us to continue the suburban pattern. It's finished. We will, however, desperately need to grow more of our food closer to home, and so the preservation of agricultural hinterlands is of great importance. But don't expect the fiesta of suburban construction to continue more than a few more years.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Home, Years, Energy

  Source: www.raisethehammer.org

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