Ernest Lawrence

“We are going to have a new form of industrial revolution. The atom is going to be our slave. It will do the work of the world.”

“It's a great liability to be known as a scientist, because you're not a person any more; you're a scientist.”

“I believe your advice has been to go slow. I have not taken your advice. I have decided to go fast.”

“There is an element of tragedy in the fact that such a beautiful discovery as that of nuclear fission... should have been made at a time when the world was on the verge of a great war.”

“The cyclotron is a child of the Depression.”

“This new art of transmuting elements is going to be of great service to mankind.”