“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, but the remotest possibility must always be considered that the energy once liberated will be completely uncontrollable and by its intense violence detonate all neighbouring substances. In this event, the whole of the hydrogen on earth might be transformed at once and the success of the experiment published at large to the universe as a new star.” EarthHumanityUniverseEnergyPowerViolencePossibilityResearchDestructionScience FictionCatastropheStarAtomic BombHydrogenUncontrollableExperimentPredictionNobel LaureateExplosionAtomNukeAtomic Power Author:Francis William Aston
“The latest element to turn up is called plutonium--which is Disney with a touch of mineral water. The word uranium had a mighty sound, a solemn sound, an awful sound. Plutonium is a belly laugh. Plutonium, incidentally, is not known in the stars; the stars are too high-minded. Plutonium is a mouthwash used by Mandrake. Plutonium is just something belonging to the comical race of people who started their first atomic fire under a football stadium.” HumorComedyElementsAtomic EnergyPlutoniumAtomic WeaponsAtomic Power Book:The Wild Flag: Editorials from the New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters Source: The Wild Flag: Editorials from the New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters