Atoms Quotes - Page 26

• The fact is that every atom that we're made of is part of that first explosion of a nuclear star billions of years ago. We're connected to the entire universe.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Stars, Years, Nuclear

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• Even if the constants which economists wish to determine were less numerous, and the method of experiment more accessible, we should still be faced with the fact that the constants themselves are different at different times. The gravitation constant is the same always. But the economic constants-these elasticities of demand and supply-depending, as they do, upon human consciousness, are liable to vary. The constitution of the atom, as it were, and not merely its position, changes under the influence of environment.

  Arthur Cecil Pigou

  Wish, Demand, Facts

  "The Economics of Welfare". Book by Arthur Cecil Pigou (4th edition, 1932), Ch. 1 : Welfare and Economic Welfare, § 4, 1920.

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• As science went further and further into the external world, they ended up inside the atom where to their surprise they saw consciousness staring them in the face!

  Ravi Gomatam

  World, Faces, Saws

  Interview with Thomas Beardy, Clarion Call magazine (Clarion University's newspaper), 1990.

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• I believe in fate. Sometimes that means an old bearded guy sitting on a cloud and pulling the strings; sometimes it means random atoms swirling through a cheerless universe; sometimes it means everything being preordained thanks to your karma credit from your previous lives.

  Kyle MacLachlan

  Karma, Believe, Mean

  "This much I know". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.

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• From the results so far obtained it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the long-range atoms arising from collision of alpha particles with nitrogen are not nitrogen atoms but probably atoms of hydrogen, or atoms of mass 2. If this be the case, we must conclude that the nitrogen atom is disintegrated under the intense forces developed in a close collision with a swift alpha particle, and that the hydrogen atom which is liberated formed a constituent part of the nitrogen nucleus.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Hydrogen Atom, Long, Nitrogen

  "Collisions of *3 Particles with Light Atoms. IV. An Anomalous Effect in Nitrogen," Philosophical Magazine, June 1919

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• During the 20th century, we came to understand that the essence of all substances - their colour, texture, hardness and so forth - is set by their structure, on scales far smaller even than a microscope can see. Everything on Earth is made of atoms, which are, especially in living things, combined together in intricate molecular assemblages.

  Martin Rees

  Essence, Together, Substance

  "We're the 'waste' from distant stars" by Martin Rees, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2008.

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• The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable. Why now? Because the change is also exponential - small differences of yesterday can have suddenly shocking consequences tomorrow.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Differences, Yesterday, Tomorrow

  "Being Digital". Book by Nicholas Negroponte, 1995.

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• If the Russians ever decide to atom bomb us, they're certain to drop an especially large one on the plant in Pleasantville.

  Billy Rose

  Bombs, Plant, Certain

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• Organic compounds exist in which a hydrogen atom, joined to the carbon, acquires acid properties as a result of the proximity of certain functional groupings.

  Victor Grignard

  Hydrogen Atom, Acid, Results

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• Chemists have always been in the business of taking atoms and putting them together with other atoms with precisely defined connections.

  George M. Whitesides

  Together, Connections, Chemist

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• Nanoengineering is learning how to make devices as small as 10 to 100 atoms in width. Much of the work is going on in the electronics industry, where there is great demand to pack more components onto computer chips.

  George M. Whitesides

  Demand, Electronics, Computer

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• UV is bad for molecules because its high energy breaks the bonds between a molecule's constituent atoms. That's why UV is bad for you, too: it's always best to avoid things that decompose the molecules of your flesh.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Energy, Molecules

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• The atom bomb was no “great decision.” It was used in the war, and for your information, there were more people killed by fire bombs in Tokyo than dropping of the atomic bombs accounted for. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness. The dropping of the bombs stopped the war, save millions of lives.

  Harry S. Truman

  Powerful, War, Fire

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• One-third of the world, it has been said, may be free- -but one-third is the victim of cruel repression--and the other one- third is rocked by the pangs of poverty, hunger and envy. More energy is released by the awakening of these new nations than by the fission of the atom itself.

  John F. Kennedy

  Envy, Energy, World

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• When those myths were created, when the Bible was written, man didn't know what an atom or a germ was, or where the sun went at night, or why the women got pregnant. [Laughs.] They needed stories to answer the questions.

  Bill Maher

  Night, Men, Laughing

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• To history therefore I must refer for answer, in which it would be an unhappy passage indeed, which should shew by what fatal indulgence of subordinate views and passions, a contest for an atom had defeated well founded prospects of giving liberty to half the globe.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Passion, Views, Giving

  Thomas Jefferson (1951). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 18 June, 1779 to 30 September, 1780”

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• The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilliser.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Spiritual, Men, Imagination

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1966). “Tread softly, for you tread on my jokes”

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• In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite ideas or dissociations. I must find a verbal formula to combat the rise of brutality--the principle of order versus the split atom.

  Ezra Pound

  Order, Ideas, Rose

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• Moreover, the universe as a whole is infinite, for whatever is limited has an outermost edge to limit it, and such an edge is defined by something beyond. Since the universe has no edge, it has no limit; and since it lacks a limit, it is infinite and unbounded. Moreover, the universe is infinite both in the number of its atoms and in the extent of its void.

  Epicurus

  Numbers, Infinity, Void

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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• Knowing he [Bob Serber] was going to the [first atom bomb] test, I asked him how he planned to deal with the danger of rattlesnakes. He said, 'I'll take along a bottle of whiskey.' … I ended by asking, 'What would you do about those possibilities [of what unknown phenomena might cause a nuclear explosion to propagate in the atmosphere]?' Bob replied, 'Take a second bottle of whiskey.'

  Edward Teller

  Knowing, Atmosphere, Causes

  "Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics". Book by Edward Teller and Judith L. Shoolery, 2001.

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• I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels.

  Anthony Trollope

  Angel, Thinking, Afterlife

  Anthony Trollope (1983). “The Letters of Anthony Trollope”, p.691, Stanford University Press

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• The most fearful phenomenon of these midcentury years is not the atom bomb; atomic energy does have its constructive possibilities.... The most fearful event of these times is the colossal expansion of the government of the United States and the constant increase of executive power within the government.

  Wheeler McMillen

  Government, Years, America

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• Carbon is, as may easily be shown and as I shall explain in greater detail later, tetrabasic or tetratomic, that is 1 atom of carbon = C = 12 is equivalent to 4 At.H.

  August Kekule

  Details, May, Carbon

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• Man is made of the same atoms the world is, he shares the same impressions, predispositions, and destiny. When his mind is illuminated, when his heart is kind, he throws himself joyfully into the sublime order, and does, with knowledge, what the stones do by structure.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Heart, Destiny

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.305, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In 1958, I was a delegate to the Atoms for Peace conference in Geneva.

  Frederick Reines

  Conferences, Geneva, Delegates

  Frederick Reines, William R. Kropp, M. Moe, L. Price (1991). “Neutrinos and Other Matters: Selected Works of Frederick Reines”, p.15, World Scientific

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