Mark Oliphant

“I've always been a pacifist, but I've been a pacifist who has been engaged in war.”

“I, right at the beginning, was horrified by the existence of a nuclear weapon and its use.”

“We had a bomb which had the destructive power of 20,000 tonnes of TNT. It was a frightening thing.”

“I have been called a monster, and I think I am a monster, having had to do with the atomic bomb.”

“I learned as a young physicist that the only thing which is certain is uncertainty.”

“Science and technology have given us the power to destroy ourselves, and we have not yet learned how to control that power.”

“To me, the idea of a nuclear war is just abhorrent.”

“It is one of the paradoxes of our time that modern science, which originated as a search for truth and knowledge, has led to the development of weapons of mass destruction.”