The best Quotes from Chernobyl

The truth is always there, whether we see it or not - whether we choose to or not. The truth doesn't care about our needs or wants. It doesn't care about our governments, our ideologies, our religions.

Valery Legasov - Episode 5

Truth

To be a scientist is to be naive.

Valery Legasov - Episode 5

Science

When the truth offends me, we lie and we lie until we can no longer remember it is even there. Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid.

Valery Legasov - Episode 5

Truth

Waleri Legassow: "Despite the stupidity, the lies, you're compelled. The problem has been assigned and you'll stop at nothing until you find an answer. Because that is who you are."
Ulana Khomyuk: "A lunatic then."
Waleri Legassow: "A scientist."

Valery Legasov - Episode 3

Science

That went surprisingly well. You came off like a naive idiot - and naive idiots are not a threat.

Viktor Bryukhanov - Episode 3

If you mean when will Chernobyl be completly save - the half-life of Plutonium 239 is 24,000 years. Perhaps we should just say, "not in our lifetimes."

Valery Legasov - Episode 3

Nuclear Energy 1986

Our power comes from the perception of our power.

Mikhail Gorbachev - Episode 2

Power

"There has been an accident at Chernobyl, but I've been assured there is no problem."
Ulana Khomyuk: "I'm telling you that there is."
"I prefer my opinion to yours."

Ulana Khomyuk - Episode 2

The accident is well under control.

Viktor Bryukhanov - Episode 1

Mistakes Nuclear Energy 1986

What is the cost of lies? It's not that we mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all.

Valery Legasov - Episode 1

Lies

Quotes about Chernobyl

"Where do you think your strength comes from?"
"The thing is, that my brother and I are from Ukraine, and just when Chernobyl exploded, we were not far away. I think it's atomic energy."

Vitali Klitschko

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Lies are comforting. Truth is painful.

Rebecca Yarros in The Empyrean - Fourth Wing

Lies Truth

Truth never wins, but its enemies cease to exist.

Max Planck

Truth

Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

Religion Science

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.

Albert Einstein in The World As I See It

Art Science

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Albert Einstein

Nuclear Energy Nuclear Weapons

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparallel catastrophe.

Albert Einstein

Nuclear Energy Atoms Nuclear Weapons

As long as weapons of mass destruction exist, primarily nuclear weapons, the danger is colossal. All nations should declare... that nuclear weapons must be destroyed. This is to save ourselves and our planet.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Weapons Nuclear Weapons

If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Yesterday Today

Why would I hate Russians? My mother is Russian, half of my blood is Russian. This is not a question of nationality, it's a question of values.

Vitali Klitschko - March 2022

Russia Russia-Ukraine War

Every Ukranian supports our decision to become part of the European family. Putin does not agree with that. We don't want to live in the Russian empire!

Vitali Klitschko - February 2022

Ukraine Russia-Ukraine War

Remember, with great power. comes great responsibility!

Uncle Ben in Spider-Man

Power Responsibility Strength

We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.

(Plattenfirma) - 1962, to The Beatles

The Beatles Mistakes Guitars 1962

Not all lies are bad, just as the truth is not always good.

New Moon Luna in Epic Seven

Lies

If you start deporting every shady looking guy with questionable tattoos, who's gonna go to Jets games?

Jordan Klepper in The Daily Show

New York Jets

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