Atoms Quotes - Page 7

• The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Science, Talking, Energy

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• The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

  Jack London

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.

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• Atoms for peace. Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on earth.

  David Sarnoff

  Men, Miracle, Earth

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• Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.

  Alexander Pope

  God, Fall, Hero

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 87

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• Matter, though divisible in an extreme degree, is nevertheless not infinitely divisible. That is, there must be some point beyond which we cannot go in the division of matter. ... I have chosen the word “atom” to signify these ultimate particles.

  John Dalton

  Science, Degrees, Division

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• There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable.

  John Langdon-Davies

  Energy, Nuclear, Predictions

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• The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.

  Niels Bohr

  Believe, Science, Doubt

  Niels Bohr (1977). “The Periodic System (1920-1923)”, p.467, Elsevier

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• 'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funny, Humor, Special

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “The Conduct of Life”, p.135

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• The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.

  Diana Vreeland

  Important, Bombs, Bikinis

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• The atoms of Democritus
  And Newton's particles of light
  Are sands upon the Red Sea shore,
  Where Israel's tents do shine so bright.

  William Blake

  Light, Israel, Sea

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.108, Wordsworth Editions

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• The emitters of the spectral series are without exception single atoms, not compounds of atoms.

  Johannes Stark

  Compounds, Exception, Series

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• But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Technology, Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Discovery

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.129, I.B.Tauris

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• We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.

  Omar N. Bradley

  History, Nuclear, Atomic Weapons

  Speech on Armistice Day, Boston, Mass., 11 Nov. 1948

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• No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Country, Independent, Bombs

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• For it goes without saying that this great recognition at this time will aid tremendously our efforts to find the necessarily large funds for the next voyage of exploration farther into the depths of the atom.

  Ernest Lawrence

  Journey, Effort, Depth

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• Moreover, the abundance of chemical compounds and their importance in daily life hindered the chemist from investigating the question, in what does the individuality of the atoms of different elements consist.

  Johannes Stark

  Individuality, Doe, Different

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• The discovery of various phenomena has led to a recognition of the fact that the chemical atom is an individual which again is itself made up of several units into a selfcontained whole.

  Johannes Stark

  Discovery, Facts, Recognition

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  The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

  George Orwell

  Lying, Cities, Police

  1946 'Some Thoughts on the Common Toad'.

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• Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Spring, Men

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2725, Delphi Classics

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• The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month.

  Michael Shermer

  Brain, Molecules, Half

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• If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed nuclear forces of those atoms, the whole of the world could thus be known by means of the natural sciences.

  Wilhelm Dilthey

  Mean, Nuclear, World

  Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.61, Princeton University Press

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• Leave the atom alone.

  Yip Harburg

  Science, Leave Me Alone

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• The atom bomb was no great decision. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

  Harry S. Truman

  Strength, Peace, Powerful

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• The removal of an electron from the surface of an atom - that is, the ionization of the atom - means a fundamental structural change in its surface layer.

  Johannes Stark

  Mean, Fundamentals, Layers

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• In my view the structure of the whole atom was that of an individual, with all its parts interconnected, and the emission of a spectral line appeared to me to be the result of the coherence and co-operation of several electric quanta.

  Johannes Stark

  Views, Coherence, Lines

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