Pluto Quotes

Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers.

Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty.

I'm sure that in 1985, plutonium is available in every corner drugstore, but in 1955, it's a little hard to come by.

Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality... 'The Odd Couple' was mine. That was the plutonium I needed. It all started happening after that.

I refuse to accept Pluto's resignation as a planet.

What's all this fuss about plutonium? How can something named after a Disney character be dangerous?

Plutonium has a quite extraordinary relationship with people. They made it, and it kills them.

I'm pretty mutable as a human being, period - if you put me on Pluto, I can figure it out.

Oligopoly, plutocracy, kleptocracy: All things that are good for a shareholder.

Why did we do that to Pluto? We had it good with Pluto.

Pluto is not a planet, but I am.

The planets. Now footnote, I'm including Pluto in the planets, because I think it's terrible what they did to Pluto. And it's still a planet to me. I grew up with Pluto as a planet, it will always be a planet.

Nor are we the culmination of evolution, except in the sense that there has never been another species so bizarrely ingenious that it could create both iambic pentameter and plutonium.

My job was to produce plutonium that was used for atomic bomb.

For me, love carries the seeds of its own destruction.

The concept of this so-called "TerraPower reactor" is that you, in the same reactor, you both burn and breed. So, instead of making plutonium and then extracting it, we take uranium - the 99.3 percent that you normally don't do anything with - we convert that, and we burn it.

It used to be said that Pluto is a misfit. But now we know Earth is the misfit. This is the most populous class of planet in our solar system and we have never sent a mission to this class.

Here seems now no reasonable justification for continuing any civil plutonium program.

There was a concept a long time ago that you would do a different type of reactor called a "fast reactor," that would make a bunch of another element called plutonium, and then you would pull that out, and then you would burn that. That's called "breeding" in a fast reactor. That is bad because plutonium is nuclear weapons material. It's messy. The processing you have to get through is not only environmentally difficultly, it's extremely expensive.

We know North Korea has the plutonium that can go into the bomb.

I, who had been in favour of nuclear energy for generating electricity ... I suddenly realised that anybody who has a nuclear reactor can extract the plutonium from the reactor and make nuclear weapons, so that a country which has a nuclear reactor can, at any moment that it wants to, become a nuclear weapons power. And I, right from the beginning, have been terribly worried by the existence of nuclear weapons and very much against their use.

The lobby is the army of the plutocracy.

Never go to Pluto, it's a Mickey Mouse planet.

We have an underdeveloped democracy and overdeveloped plutocracy.

I loved Pluto. I was totally fascinated by Pluto. When I started in astronomy, I started looking at this region of the sky because I thought it was so interesting out there.