top of page
"It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Science quotes

"Human psychology is the most mysterious thing in the world."

"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not."

"In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas."Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of."

"Psychology is more concerned with identifying the degree of mental disorder and less with its cure!"

"A drop of water is not immortal; it can be resolved into oxygen and hydrogen. If, therefore, a drop of water were to maintain that it had a quality of aqueousness which would survive its dissolution we should be inclined to be skeptical. In like manner we know that the brain is not immortal..."
Explore more quotes by Alva Myrdal

"The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations."

"It is of the greatest importance that people and governments in many more countries than ours should realize that it is more dangerous to have access to nuclear arms than not to possess them."

"War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced."

"The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion."

"First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war."

"The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing."

"Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong."

"All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial."

"The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization."
bottom of page