Quotes about Detonation

Enrico Fermi

A little bomb like that can make us all disappear

he cupped his two hands Fermi was the scientist who organized and planned the first controlled nuclear chain reaction

Lyndon B. Johnson

Just because we have a button here that will put off a blast over yonder is no reason you want to put that thumb on that button.

Alexander Volkanovski

I like to throw bombs.

Roger Bacon

From the flaming and flashing of certain igneous mixtures and the terror inspired by their noise, wonderful consequences ensue which no one can guard against or endure … when a quantity of this powder, no bigger than a man’s finger, be wrapped up in a piece of parchment and ignited, it explodes with a blinding flash and a stunning noise. If a larger quantity were used, or the case was made of more solid material, the explosion would be much more violent, and the flash and noise altogether unbeatable.

This is one of the earliest English language descriptions of gunpowder.

Vittorio Mussolini

I dropped an aerial torpedo right in the center, and the group opened up like a flowering rose. It was most entertaining.

Jacques Le Blanc

I do not like this word, bomb. It is not a bomb; it is a device which is exploding.

Iain Banks

The bomb lives only as it is falling.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

'It worked.' (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation).

Joel Silver

I want an explosion the size of Cleveland.

Michael Lewis

The fuses had been lit and could not be extinguished. All that remained was to observe the speed of the spark, and the size of the explosions.

Gena Showalter

Bomb', Reyes said, not bothering to look up. 'One of ours?' Maddox insisted... 'Hardly. I know better than to blow myself up,' Reyes sighed.

Robert Wade

It's very difficult to think of new ways to blow things up!

Mark Hanna

I see dynamite in it.

Roosevelt was preparing to suggest government regulation of large corporations and trusts. See Theodore Roosevelt {42023}

Charles Bronson

I look like a quarry someone has dynamited.

Jamie Hyneman

Any day we create that much shrapnel is a good day.

Adam Savage

Let's blow some stuff up.

Francis William Aston

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 neighboring 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.

When the atomic bomb was first tested at Los Alamos, some of the scientists were concerned that Aston’s warning might come to pass. The result was that they conducted a series of calculations to preclude the possibility. Oppenheimer, Fermi, Bohr, Teller, Alverez, Feynman and dozens of others calculated that given the parameters that they were testing, there was no danger. None the less, in their memoirs most admit that in the back of their head, there was lingering this possibility that was first raised by this quotation from another great scientist.

Joe E. Lewis

I would take a bomb, but I can't stand the noise.

Bill Joy

A bomb is blown up only once—but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.

Detonation Quotes