Abdus Salam Quotes

I think, for me, nuclear is just the power, the devastation is very important to me.

In America, we're tired. We're exhausted in terms of nuclear.

We have to be extremely vigilant and extremely careful when it comes to nuclear. Nuclear changes the whole ball game.

I hate people. People make me pro-nuclear.

Leave the atom alone.

I wouldn't call myself anti-nuclear.

The only reason to treat nuclear power differently from all the other developments in the field of physics is its staggering possibilities as a means of political pressure in peace and sudden destruction in war.

By developing atomic energy for peaceful purposes, you reach the nuclear option. There are no two atomic energies.

I would say that I was absolutely convinced of the possibility of our making an uranium engine, but I never thought that we would make a bomb; and at the bottom of my heart, I was really glad that it was to be an engine and not a bomb.

No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy].

Other paths would include making nuclear fission cheap enough and safe enough that people broadly embrace it, so that could be scaled up.

In many places around the world, all over the U.S. and Europe there are active nuclear power plants. And for many years during the Cold War the threat of nuclear war was a permanent fear. There's always the concern that human kind is biting off more than they can chew in harnessing nuclear power.

The whole nuclear thing is a terrible mess and it's hard for me to understand why it is that we, the United States, seem to be the only ones that are really particularly concerned about it and prepared to do something.

We hope that this honor you have done us will bring the time of further realization of these benefits closer and will help all mankind to live better and be happier through the atom and isotopes.

Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult.

We have every interest in seeing that the military use of nuclear power will be contained.

There will be no support in the island of Ireland for building a nuclear power station.

I think we ultimately ought to look to put all uranium enrichment and fuel reprocessing, if any is done, under multinational control. Those are the two technologies by which nuclear energy can be translated into nuclear weapons programmes.

It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.

The secret of atomic energy does not belong to America … it belongs to al mankind.

These experiments might make it possible to produce power by means of nuclear energy and radioactive elements. Unfortunately also perhaps atomic bombs.

Our nuclear scientists and engineers have done a splendid job, and naturally, the entire nation has risen to salute their professional excellence, discipline, and patriotism. They have had the benefit of having been led in the past by great men like Homi Bhabha and Vikram Sarabhai.

Iran doesn't need one centrifuge. Canada has nuclear energy. Spain has nuclear energy. Switzerland has nuclear energy, and they don't enrich uranium. You don't need to enrich uranium in order to use nuclear energy. You enrich uranium in order to produce a bomb.

I love nuclear.

I hope nuclear becomes a part of the conversation, at the right time when we recognize the importance of that resource. I hope we can work that out as a country and figure out how we are going to put nuclear in the mix.