3 Quotes About The Making Of The Atomic Bomb

The atomic bomb changed the world. The first atomic bomb was detonated on the morning of July 16, 1945, at 8:30 a.m. at a place called Alamogordo, New Mexico. Scientists from the Manhattan Project had been working for years to create a nuclear weapon that would eliminate Germany as a military threat Read more

After years of testing and brainstorming, they finally succeeded. The use of the atomic bomb changed the world forever, and this collection of quotes captures the excitement and wonder from those who were there.

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[Chemist Michael] Polanyi found one other necessary requirement for full initiation into science: Belief. If science has become the orthodoxy of the West, individuals are nevertheless still free to take it or leave it, in whole or in part; believers in astrology, Marxism and virgin birth abound. But "no one can become a scientist unless he presumes that the scientific doctrine and method are fundamentally sound and that their ultimate premises can be unquestionably accepted. Richard Rhodes
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Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts to a claim that science is essentially different from and superior to all human beliefs that are not scientific statements--and this is untrue. Richard Rhodes