Fast Neutron Fission

Famous quotes containing the words fast and/or fission:

    Endlessly, time-honoured irritant,
    A bubble is restively forming at your tip.
    Burst it as fast as we can
    It will grow again, until we begin dying.
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon us the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb. We do not choose our problems, we do not choose our products; we are pushed, we are forced—by what? By a system which has no purpose and goal transcending it, and which makes man its appendix.
    Erich Fromm (1900–1980)