Atoms Quotes - Page 2

• What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Sad, Spiritual

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• The scientists split the atom; now the atom is splitting us.

  Quentin Reynolds

  Splits, Scientist, Splitting The Atom

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• I like relativity and quantum theories because I don't understand them and they make me feel as if space shifted about like a swan that can't settle, refusing to sit still and be measured; and as if the atom were an impulsive thing always changing its mind.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Science, Swans, Space

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6729, Delphi Classics

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• In this communication I wish first to show in the simplest case of the hydrogen atom (nonrelativistic and undistorted) that the usual rates for quantization can be replaced by another requirement, in which mention of "whole numbers" no longer occurs. Instead the integers occur in the same natural way as the integers specifying the number of nodes in a vibrating string. The new conception can be generalized, and I believe it touches the deepest meaning of the quantum rules.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Believe, Communication, Science

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• History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.

  Leonard Louis Levinson

  History, Adam

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• It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Prejudice, Cracks

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• Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

  Richard P. Feynman

  Stars, Science, Night

  Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2013). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 1 for tablets”, Basic Books

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• Man is slightly nearer to the atom than to the star. ... From his central position man can survey the grandest works of Nature with the astronomer, or the minutest works with the physicist. ... [K]nowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.

  Arthur Eddington

  Nature, Stars, Science

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• In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, - into hostile atoms, whose only movement was that of mutual repulsion.

  Edward Everett

  Break Up, Elements, Movement

  Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions”, p.655, Рипол Классик

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• It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover.

  William Shakespeare

  Science, Ease, Lovers

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [246]

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• I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

  Jack London

  Sleep, Writing Words, London

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

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• By allowing the positive ions to pass through an electric field and thus giving them a certain velocity, it is possible to distinguish them from the neutral, stationary atoms.

  Johannes Stark

  Ions, Giving, Velocity

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• Within your physical atoms the origins of all consciousness still sings.

  Jane Roberts

  Spiritual, Law Of Attraction, Consciousness

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• I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams.

  David R. Brower

  Beautiful, People, Needs

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• The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

  E. B. White

  Acceptance, Power, Men

  E. B. WHITE (1954). “The SECOND TREE from the CORNER”

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• The universe is not made up of atoms; it’s made up of tiny stories.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Stories, Tiny, Made

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt (2013). “The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories:”, Harper Collins

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• The electron, as it leaves the atom, crystallises out of Schrodinger's mist like a genie emerging from his bottle.

  Arthur Eddington

  Science, Bottles, Mist

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• Pauling was shocked by the freedom with which the X-ray crystallographers of the time, including particularly Astbury, played with the intimate chemical structure of their models. They seemed to think that if the atoms were arranged in the right order and about the right distance apart, that was all that mattered, that no further restrictions need to be put on them.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Freedom, Distance, Science

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• Atoms for peace. Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on earth. [Message tapped out by Sarnoff using a telegraph key in a tabletop circuit demonstrating an RCA atomic battery as a power source.]

  David Sarnoff

  Science, Men, Keys

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• Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no longer atoms but stars; these grains also move with great velocities, they act at a distance one upon another, but this action is so slight at great distances that their trajectories are rectilineal; nevertheless, from time to time, two of them may come near enough together to be deviated from their course, like a comet that passed too close to Jupiter. In a word, in the eyes of a giant, to whom our Suns were what our atoms are to us, the Milky Way would only look like a bubble of gas.

  Henri Poincare

  Stars, Distance, Moving

  Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.905, Modern Library

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• Compare ... the various quantities of the same element contained in the molecule of the free substance and in those of all its different compounds and you will not be able to escape the following law: The different quantities of the same element contained in different molecules are all whole multiples of one and the same quantity, which always being entire, has the right to be called an atom.

  Stanislao Cannizzaro

  Science, Law, Molecules

  Stanislao Cannizzaro (1910). “Sketch of a Course of Chemical Philosophy”

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• Although we know nothing of what an atom is, yet we cannot resist forming some idea of a small particle, which represents it to the mind ... there is an immensity of facts which justify us in believing that the atoms of matter are in some way endowed or associated with electrical powers, to which they owe their most striking qualities, and amongst them their mutual chemical affinity.

  Michael Faraday

  Believe, Science, Electrical Power

  Michael Faraday (1839). “Experimental Researches in Electricity: Series 1-14 [Phil. trans., 1831-38] 1839”, p.249

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• If atoms do, by chance, happen to combine themselves into so many shapes, why have they never combined together to form a house or a slipper? By the same token, why do we not believe that if innumerable letters of the Greek alphabet were poured all over the market-place they would eventually happen to form the text of the Iliad?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Believe, Science, House

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• By convention sweet is sweet, by convention bitter is bitter, by convention hot is hot, by convention cold is cold, by convention color is color. But in reality there are atoms and the void. That is, the objects of sense are supposed to be real and it is customary to regard them as such, but in truth they are not. Only the atoms and the void are real.

  Democritus

  Sweet, Truth, Real

  "Source Book in Ancient Philosophy". Book by Charles Montague Bakewell, 1907.

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• There can never be two or more equivalent electrons in an atom, for which in a strong field the values of all the quantum numbers n, k1, k2 and m are the same. If an electron is present, for which these quantum numbers (in an external field) have definite values, then this state is 'occupied.'

  Wolfgang Pauli

  Strong, Science, Two

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