Atomic may refer to:
- Of or relating to the atom, the smallest particle of a chemical element that retains its chemical properties
- Atomic Age, also known as the "Atomic Era"
- Atomic (magazine), an Australian computing and technology magazine
- Atomic Skis, an Austrian ski producer
- Atomic (band), a Norwegian jazz quintet
- Atomic (album), an album by Lit
- "Atomic" (song), a song by Blondie
- "Atomic", a song by Tiger Army from Tiger Army III: Ghost Tigers Rise
- Atom (order theory) in mathematics
Famous quotes containing the word atomic:
“Quite often ... these little guys, who might be making atomic weapons or who might be guilty of some human rights violation ... are looking for someone to listen to their problems and help them communicate.”
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)
“The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest laws of atomic physics or even of pure mathematics and logic, is a man-made fabric which impinges on experience only along the edges. Or, to change the figure, total science is like a field of force whose boundary conditions are experience.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.”
—J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967)