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• "For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy." - Richard Feynman

• "The energy produced by breaking down the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformations of these atoms is taking moonshine." - Ernest Rutherford

• "If you take a bale of hay and tie it to the tail of a mule and then strike a match and set the bale of hay on fire, and if you then compare the energy expended shortly thereafter by the mule with the energy expended by yourself in the striking of the match, you will understand the concept of amplification." - William Shockley

• "You will soon be able to tax it" - Michael Faraday to William Gladstone on the future use of electricity.

• "Higher energy prices act like a tax" - John W. Snow

• "It is easier to split an atom than a prejudice" - Albert Einstein