Opinions of nuclear power and bombs |
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Robert A. Millikan - 1928 Speech to the Chemists' Club: New York. "There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom. The glib supposition of utilizing atomic energy when our coal has run out, is a completely unscientific Utopian dream, a childish bug-a-boo. Nature has introduced a few fool-proof devices into the great majority of elements that constitute the bulk of the world, and they have no energy to give up in the process of disintegration." Ernest Rutherford - 1933 "Any one who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine. There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will." Albert Einstein - 1932 "That is the biggest fool thing we have ever done. The bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives." |